Re: [PATCH v3] tty: tty_io: remove hung_up_tty_fops

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat May 04 2024 - 13:50:59 EST


On Fri, 3 May 2024 at 22:08, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> You are right, this is going to need some arch-specific code for a few
> of the architectures. Hey, I was hoping!!!
>
> The compilers do not currently optimize these things, but things appear
> to me to be heading in that direction.

Ok, so it sounds like right now it makes no sense - presumably
__atomic_load_n() doesn't actually generate better code than
READ_ONCE() does as-is, and we have the issue with having to make it
per-architecture anyway.

But maybe in a couple of years we can revisit this when / if it
actually generates better code and is more widely applicable.

Linus