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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-12-04 18:42:03 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-02-17 15:01:42 -0800
commitcb1e78cfa267453bb19e7edafd214c03834b664c (patch)
tree1211ed872c631b1cd71052cbd20e0ca89221cb51
parent87de1cfdc55b16b794e245b07322340725149d62 (diff)
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rcu: Remove ACCESS_ONCE() from jiffies
Because jiffies is one of a very few variables marked "volatile", there is no need to use ACCESS_ONCE() when accessing it. This commit therefore removes the redundant ACCESS_ONCE() wrappers. Reported by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/torture.c4
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree.c6
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/torture.c b/kernel/rcu/torture.c
index ab7dd192a50b..022c5312b725 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/torture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/torture.c
@@ -1352,7 +1352,7 @@ rcu_torture_shutdown(void *arg)
unsigned long jiffies_snap;
VERBOSE_PRINTK_STRING("rcu_torture_shutdown task started");
- jiffies_snap = ACCESS_ONCE(jiffies);
+ jiffies_snap = jiffies;
while (ULONG_CMP_LT(jiffies_snap, shutdown_time) &&
!kthread_should_stop()) {
delta = shutdown_time - jiffies_snap;
@@ -1361,7 +1361,7 @@ rcu_torture_shutdown(void *arg)
"rcu_torture_shutdown task: %lu jiffies remaining\n",
torture_type, delta);
schedule_timeout_interruptible(delta);
- jiffies_snap = ACCESS_ONCE(jiffies);
+ jiffies_snap = jiffies;
}
if (kthread_should_stop()) {
VERBOSE_PRINTK_STRING("rcu_torture_shutdown task stopping");
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 321feef0f5c0..73c3cd2b87ac 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ static int rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs(struct rcu_data *rdp,
* to the next. Only do this for the primary flavor of RCU.
*/
if (rdp->rsp == rcu_state &&
- ULONG_CMP_GE(ACCESS_ONCE(jiffies), rdp->rsp->jiffies_resched)) {
+ ULONG_CMP_GE(jiffies, rdp->rsp->jiffies_resched)) {
rdp->rsp->jiffies_resched += 5;
resched_cpu(rdp->cpu);
}
@@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ static int rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs(struct rcu_data *rdp,
static void record_gp_stall_check_time(struct rcu_state *rsp)
{
- unsigned long j = ACCESS_ONCE(jiffies);
+ unsigned long j = jiffies;
unsigned long j1;
rsp->gp_start = j;
@@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ static void check_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp)
if (rcu_cpu_stall_suppress || !rcu_gp_in_progress(rsp))
return;
- j = ACCESS_ONCE(jiffies);
+ j = jiffies;
/*
* Lots of memory barriers to reject false positives.