On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 7:37 PM Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In preparation for allowing architectures to define their own
> implementation of the READ_ONCE() macro, move the generic
> {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() definitions out of the unwieldy 'linux/compiler.h'
> file and into a new 'rwonce.h' header under 'asm-generic'.
>
> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/asm-generic/Kbuild | 1 +
> include/asm-generic/rwonce.h | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/compiler.h | 83 +-------------------------------
Very nice, this has the added benefit of allowing us to stop including
asm/barrier.h once linux/compiler.h gets changed to not include
asm/rwonce.h.
The asm/barrier.h header has a circular dependency, pulling in
linux/compiler.h itself.
Arnd
