Re: [PATCH 02/18] compiler.h: Split {READ,WRITE}_ONCE definitions out into rwonce.h

[Will Deacon]

Hi Arnd,

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 09:11:32PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, with this series linux/compiler.h _does_ include asm/rwonce.h because
otherwise there are many callers to fix up, but that could be addressed
subsequently, I suppose.

> The asm/barrier.h header has a circular dependency, pulling in
> linux/compiler.h itself.

Hmm. Once smp_read_barrier_depends() disappears, I could actually remove
the include of <asm/barrier.h> from asm-generic/rwonce.h. It would have to
remain for arch/alpha/, however, since we need the barrier definitions to
implement READ_ONCE(). I can probably also replace the include of
<linux/compiler.h> in asm-generic/barrier.h with <asm/rwonce.h> too (so it's
still circular, but at least a lot simpler).

I'll have a play...

Will