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Atomic pointer support is an important piece of synchronization algorithm, e.g. RCU, hence provide the support for that. Note that instead of relying on atomic_long or the implementation of `Atomic<usize>`, a new set of helpers (atomic_ptr_*) is introduced for atomic pointer specifically, this is because ptr2int casting would lose the provenance of a pointer and even though in theory there are a few tricks the provenance can be restored, it'll still be a simpler implementation if C could provide atomic pointers directly. The side effects of this approach are: we don't have the arithmetic and logical operations for pointers yet and the current implementation only works on ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW architectures, but these are implementation issues and can be added later. Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Reviewed-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260120140503.62804-3-boqun.feng@gmail.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303201701.12204-8-boqun@kernel.org