UPSTREAM: kernel: Provide READ_ONCE and ASSIGN_ONCE
ACCESS_ONCE does not work reliably on non-scalar types. For example gcc 4.6 and 4.7 might remove the volatile tag for such accesses during the SRA (scalar replacement of aggregates) step https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145 ) Let's provide READ_ONCE/ASSIGN_ONCE that will do all accesses via scalar types as suggested by Linus Torvalds. Accesses larger than the machines word size cannot be guaranteed to be atomic. These macros will use memcpy and emit a build warning. Signed-off-by:Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Bug: 28705983 (cherry picked from commit 230fa253) Change-Id: I6235247c7b3a5e14093d477417000ed82f7586a3
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