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authorSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2015-11-03 16:19:02 -0500
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2015-11-03 16:19:02 -0500
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ring_buffer: Remove unneeded smp_wmb() before wakeup of reader benchmark
wake_up_process() has a memory barrier before doing anything, thus adding a memory barrier before calling it is redundant. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c
index 9e00fd178226..6df9a83e20d7 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c
@@ -288,8 +288,6 @@ static void ring_buffer_producer(void)
/* the completions must be visible before the finish var */
smp_wmb();
reader_finish = 1;
- /* finish var visible before waking up the consumer */
- smp_wmb();
wake_up_process(consumer);
wait_for_completion(&read_done);
}