Commit 9d162cd0 authored by Josh Triplett's avatar Josh Triplett Committed by Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer's assignment volatile and type-safe

The rcu_assign_pointer() primitive needs to use ACCESS_ONCE to make
the assignment to the destination pointer volatile, to protect against
compilers too clever for their own good.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
parent 36708b89
......@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void)
#define __rcu_assign_pointer(p, v, space) \
do { \
smp_wmb(); \
(p) = (typeof(*v) __force space *)(v); \
ACCESS_ONCE(p) = (typeof(*(v)) __force space *)(v); \
} while (0)
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