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Commit ca16265a authored by Frederic Weisbecker's avatar Frederic Weisbecker Committed by Boqun Feng
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rcu/nocb: Remove needless LOAD-ACQUIRE



The LOAD-ACQUIRE access performed on rdp->nocb_cb_sleep advertizes
ordering callback execution against grace period completion. However
this is contradicted by the following:

* This LOAD-ACQUIRE doesn't pair with anything. The only counterpart
  barrier that can be found is the smp_mb() placed after callbacks
  advancing in nocb_gp_wait(). However the barrier is placed _after_
  ->nocb_cb_sleep write.

* Callbacks can be concurrently advanced between the LOAD-ACQUIRE on
  ->nocb_cb_sleep and the call to rcu_segcblist_extract_done_cbs() in
  rcu_do_batch(), making any ordering based on ->nocb_cb_sleep broken.

* Both rcu_segcblist_extract_done_cbs() and rcu_advance_cbs() are called
  under the nocb_lock, the latter hereby providing already the desired
  ACQUIRE semantics.

Therefore it is safe to access ->nocb_cb_sleep with a simple compiler
barrier.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBoqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
parent 41bccc98
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