On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 15:42 +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > Am 23.03.2015 um 23:44 schrieb Jason Low: > > Commit 38c5ce936a08 converted ACCESS_ONCE usage in gup_pmd_range() to > > READ_ONCE, since ACCESS_ONCE doesn't work reliably on non-scalar types. > > > > This patch removes the rest of the usages of ACCESS_ONCE, and use > > READ_ONCE for the read accesses. This also makes things cleaner, > > instead of using separate/multiple sets of APIs. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.l...@hp.com> > > Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntrae...@de.ibm.com>
Thanks. > one remark or question: > > > - anon_mapping = (unsigned long) ACCESS_ONCE(page->mapping); > > + anon_mapping = (unsigned long)READ_ONCE(page->mapping); > > Were the white space changes intentional? IIRC checkpatch does prefer > it your way and you have changed several places - so I assume yes. Yeah, those changes were intentional. I thought that this was more of the standard style to do casting, so I made those changes as well. > Either way, its probably fine to change that along. Okay, I'll assume that this is fine for now unless something thinks this shouldn't be part of the patch. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
