Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752563AbdLATxa (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2017 14:53:30 -0500 Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]:35586 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752229AbdLATv2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2017 14:51:28 -0500 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@kernel.org, jiangshanlai@gmail.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, "Paul E. McKenney" , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , , , Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 21/21] drivers/vhost: Remove now-redundant read_barrier_depends() Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 11:51:16 -0800 X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.2 In-Reply-To: <20171201195053.GA23494@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20171201195053.GA23494@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 17120119-0040-0000-0000-000003CB3A7E X-IBM-SpamModules-Scores: X-IBM-SpamModules-Versions: BY=3.00008137; HX=3.00000241; KW=3.00000007; PH=3.00000004; SC=3.00000243; SDB=6.00953999; UDB=6.00482085; IPR=6.00734074; BA=6.00005726; NDR=6.00000001; ZLA=6.00000005; ZF=6.00000009; ZB=6.00000000; ZP=6.00000000; ZH=6.00000000; ZU=6.00000002; MB=3.00018295; XFM=3.00000015; UTC=2017-12-01 19:51:24 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 17120119-0041-0000-0000-000007C06C8B Message-Id: <1512157876-24665-21-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2017-12-01_05:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=1 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 impostorscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1709140000 definitions=main-1712010232 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1186 Lines: 34 Because READ_ONCE() now implies read_barrier_depends(), the read_barrier_depends() in next_desc() is now redundant. This commit therefore removes it and the related comments. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Jason Wang Cc: Cc: Cc: --- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c index 33ac2b186b85..78b5940a415a 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -1877,12 +1877,7 @@ static unsigned next_desc(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, struct vring_desc *desc) return -1U; /* Check they're not leading us off end of descriptors. */ - next = vhost16_to_cpu(vq, desc->next); - /* Make sure compiler knows to grab that: we don't want it changing! */ - /* We will use the result as an index in an array, so most - * architectures only need a compiler barrier here. */ - read_barrier_depends(); - + next = vhost16_to_cpu(vq, READ_ONCE(desc->next)); return next; } -- 2.5.2