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Subject: [PATCH 4.9 20/61] locking: Remove smp_read_barrier_depends() from queued_spin_lock_slowpath()
Date:   Thu, 20 Dec 2018 10:18:20 +0100
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4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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commit 548095dea63ffc016d39c35b32c628d033638aca upstream.

Queued spinlocks are not used by DEC Alpha, and furthermore operations
such as READ_ONCE() and release/relaxed RMW atomics are being changed
to imply smp_read_barrier_depends().  This commit therefore removes the
now-redundant smp_read_barrier_depends() from queued_spin_lock_slowpath(),
and adjusts the comments accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 12 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
index a72f5df643f8..8710fbe8d26c 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ static __always_inline void clear_pending_set_locked(struct qspinlock *lock)
  * @tail : The new queue tail code word
  * Return: The previous queue tail code word
  *
- * xchg(lock, tail)
+ * xchg(lock, tail), which heads an address dependency
  *
  * p,*,* -> n,*,* ; prev = xchg(lock, node)
  */
@@ -533,13 +533,11 @@ queue:
 	if (old & _Q_TAIL_MASK) {
 		prev = decode_tail(old);
 		/*
-		 * The above xchg_tail() is also a load of @lock which generates,
-		 * through decode_tail(), a pointer.
-		 *
-		 * The address dependency matches the RELEASE of xchg_tail()
-		 * such that the access to @prev must happen after.
+		 * The above xchg_tail() is also a load of @lock which
+		 * generates, through decode_tail(), a pointer.  The address
+		 * dependency matches the RELEASE of xchg_tail() such that
+		 * the subsequent access to @prev happens after.
 		 */
-		smp_read_barrier_depends();
 
 		WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, node);
 
-- 
2.19.1