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From:   Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
To:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Prevent evaluation of WRITE_ONCE()
Date:   Fri, 24 May 2019 12:35:34 +0200
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Hi all,

This all started when we realized that

  atomic64_t v;
  ...
  typeof(v.counter) my_val = atomic64_set(&v, VAL);

is a valid assignment on some architectures, but not on others [1]:
in particular, the assignment is valid on all architectures #define
-ing their atomic64_set() macro to WRITE_ONCE() (which is currently
evaluated).

Mark suggested to clean up all non-portable users of atomic*_set(),
and to prevent WRITE_ONCE() from being evaluated [2]; this resulted
in this first attempt/patchset based on Mark's atomics/type-cleanup
branch [3].

Cheers Andrea

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190523083013.GA4616@andrea
[2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190523141851.GA7523@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com
[3] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git atomics/type-cleanup

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>

Andrea Parri (2):
  vmw_vmci: Clean up uses of atomic*_set()
  compiler: Prevent evaluation of WRITE_ONCE()

 include/linux/compiler.h      | 5 ++---
 include/linux/vmw_vmci_defs.h | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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