tools/memory-model: Remove rb-dep, smp_read_barrier_depends, and lockless_dereference
authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 23:25:12 +0000 (15:25 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:58:16 +0000 (09:58 +0100)
commitbf28ae5627442355dbb8d99238da4fb95c2dd4ec
tree2618fa8006b9b999a4ce34adc53cb1850c70cc0c
parentcac79a39f200ef73ae7fc8a429ce2859ebb118d9
tools/memory-model: Remove rb-dep, smp_read_barrier_depends, and lockless_dereference

Since commit 76ebbe78f739 ("locking/barriers: Add implicit
smp_read_barrier_depends() to READ_ONCE()") was merged for the 4.15
kernel, it has not been necessary to use smp_read_barrier_depends().
Similarly, commit 59ecbbe7b31c ("locking/barriers: Kill
lockless_dereference()") removed lockless_dereference() from the
kernel.

Since these primitives are no longer part of the kernel, they do not
belong in the Linux Kernel Memory Consistency Model.  This patch
removes them, along with the internal rb-dep relation, and updates the
revelant documentation.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akiyks@gmail.com
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr
Cc: nborisov@suse.com
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519169112-20593-12-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
tools/memory-model/Documentation/cheatsheet.txt
tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt
tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell
tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat
tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.def