Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] Allow architectures to override __READ_ONCE()

From: Josh Triplett <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 00:38:46 -0700

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 06:37:16PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> The patches allow architectures to provide their own implementation of
> __READ_ONCE(). This serves two main purposes:
> 
>   1. It finally allows us to remove [smp_]read_barrier_depends() from the
>      Linux memory model and make it an implementation detail of the Alpha
>      back-end.

And there was much rejoicing. Thank you.

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