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author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-06-27 09:36:29 -0700 |
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committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-07-17 14:58:59 -0700 |
commit | 704dd435ac7eaefa89fcd82fd2876b8330e00ff3 (patch) | |
tree | 7b57a6ab5bed14ddbd1a58ed015c853d3a8b7a6c /kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | |
parent | 4f525a528b9e75571c6bedc6202beff1ced24c32 (diff) | |
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rcu: Consolidate last open-coded expedited memory barrier
One of the requirements on RCU grace periods is that if there is a
causal chain of operations that starts after one grace period and
ends before another grace period, then the two grace periods must
be serialized. There has been (and might still be) code that relies
on this, for example, certain types of reference-counting code that
does a call_rcu() within an RCU callback function.
This requirement is why there is an smp_mb() at the end of both
synchronize_sched_expedited() and synchronize_rcu_expedited().
However, this is the only smp_mb() in these functions, so it would
be nicer to consolidate it into rcu_exp_gp_seq_end(). This commit
does just that.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h index f0d71449ec0c..27b714601c6e 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h @@ -735,7 +735,6 @@ void synchronize_rcu_expedited(void) /* Clean up and exit. */ rcu_exp_gp_seq_end(rsp); mutex_unlock(&rnp_unlock->exp_funnel_mutex); - smp_mb(); /* ensure subsequent action seen after grace period. */ } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_rcu_expedited); |