x86/mm: Remove superfluous barriers
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tue, 5 Dec 2017 12:34:46 +0000 (13:34 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 16:53:44 +0000 (17:53 +0100)
commit b5fc6d943808b570bdfbec80f40c6b3855f1c48b upstream.

atomic64_inc_return() already implies smp_mb() before and after.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: aliguori@amazon.com
Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: keescook@google.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h

index c2e45da..3e22273 100644 (file)
@@ -60,19 +60,13 @@ static inline void invpcid_flush_all_nonglobals(void)
 
 static inline u64 inc_mm_tlb_gen(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
-       u64 new_tlb_gen;
-
        /*
         * Bump the generation count.  This also serves as a full barrier
         * that synchronizes with switch_mm(): callers are required to order
         * their read of mm_cpumask after their writes to the paging
         * structures.
         */
-       smp_mb__before_atomic();
-       new_tlb_gen = atomic64_inc_return(&mm->context.tlb_gen);
-       smp_mb__after_atomic();
-
-       return new_tlb_gen;
+       return atomic64_inc_return(&mm->context.tlb_gen);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT