[tip: x86/mm] mm: Remove pointless barrier() after pmdp_get_lockless()

From: tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
Date: Sat Dec 17 2022 - 13:56:37 EST


The following commit has been merged into the x86/mm branch of tip:

Commit-ID: eb780dcae02d5a71e6979aa7b8c708dea8597adf
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/eb780dcae02d5a71e6979aa7b8c708dea8597adf
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:47:29 +02:00
Committer: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 10:37:27 -08:00

mm: Remove pointless barrier() after pmdp_get_lockless()

pmdp_get_lockless() should itself imply any ordering required.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221022114425.298833095%40infradead.org
---
mm/hmm.c | 1 -
mm/vmscan.c | 3 ---
2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
index 39cf50d..601a99c 100644
--- a/mm/hmm.c
+++ b/mm/hmm.c
@@ -362,7 +362,6 @@ again:
* values.
*/
pmd = pmdp_get_lockless(pmdp);
- barrier();
if (!pmd_devmap(pmd) && !pmd_trans_huge(pmd))
goto again;

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 88ef873..4936a88 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -4041,9 +4041,6 @@ restart:
for (i = pmd_index(start), addr = start; addr != end; i++, addr = next) {
pmd_t val = pmdp_get_lockless(pmd + i);

- /* for pmdp_get_lockless() */
- barrier();
-
next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);

if (!pmd_present(val) || is_huge_zero_pmd(val)) {