Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu

Pull RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney:

  - Initialization/Kconfig updates: hide most Kconfig options from unsuspecting users.
    There's now a single high level configuration option:

      *
      * RCU Subsystem
      *
      Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration (RCU_EXPERT) [N/y/?] (NEW)

    Which if answered in the negative, leaves us with a single interactive
    configuration option:

      Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs (RCU_NOCB_CPU) [N/y/?] (NEW)

    All the rest of the RCU options are configured automatically.

  - Remove all uses of RCU-protected array indexes: replace the
    rcu_[access|dereference]_index_check() APIs with READ_ONCE() and rcu_lockdep_assert().

  - RCU CPU-hotplug cleanups.

  - Updates to Tiny RCU: a race fix and further code shrinkage.

  - RCU torture-testing updates: fixes, speedups, cleanups and
    documentation updates.

  - Miscellaneous fixes.

  - Documentation updates.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 867722591be2..5d66777914db 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -252,6 +252,22 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s
 #define WRITE_ONCE(x, val) \
         ({ typeof(x) __val = (val); __write_once_size(&(x), &__val, sizeof(__val)); __val; })
 
+/**
+ * READ_ONCE_CTRL - Read a value heading a control dependency
+ * @x: The value to be read, heading the control dependency
+ *
+ * Control dependencies are tricky.  See Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+ * for important information on how to use them.  Note that in many cases,
+ * use of smp_load_acquire() will be much simpler.  Control dependencies
+ * should be avoided except on the hottest of hotpaths.
+ */
+#define READ_ONCE_CTRL(x) \
+({ \
+        typeof(x) __val = READ_ONCE(x); \
+        smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* Enforce control dependency. */ \
+        __val; \
+})
+
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */