locking/barriers: Kill lockless_dereference()

lockless_dereference() is a nice idea, but it gained little traction in
kernel code since its introduction three years ago. This is partly
because it's a pain to type, but also because using READ_ONCE() instead
has worked correctly on all architectures apart from Alpha, which is a
fully supported but somewhat niche architecture these days.

Now that READ_ONCE() has been upgraded to contain an implicit
smp_read_barrier_depends() and the few callers of lockless_dereference()
have been converted, we can remove lockless_dereference() altogether.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508840570-22169-5-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 7d7b77da9716..5a1cab48442c 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -346,24 +346,4 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s
         (volatile typeof(x) *)&(x); })
 #define ACCESS_ONCE(x) (*__ACCESS_ONCE(x))
 
-/**
- * lockless_dereference() - safely load a pointer for later dereference
- * @p: The pointer to load
- *
- * Similar to rcu_dereference(), but for situations where the pointed-to
- * object's lifetime is managed by something other than RCU.  That
- * "something other" might be reference counting or simple immortality.
- *
- * The seemingly unused variable ___typecheck_p validates that @p is
- * indeed a pointer type by using a pointer to typeof(*p) as the type.
- * Taking a pointer to typeof(*p) again is needed in case p is void *.
- */
-#define lockless_dereference(p) \
-({ \
-        typeof(p) _________p1 = READ_ONCE(p); \
-        typeof(*(p)) *___typecheck_p __maybe_unused; \
-        smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* Dependency order vs. p above. */ \
-        (_________p1); \
-})
-
 #endif /* __LINUX_COMPILER_H */