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.