From 7562eed272b49e233c430524e684b957f34f2fd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:56:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] rcu/nocb: Remove superfluous memory barrier after bypass enqueue Pre-GP accesses performed by the update side must be ordered against post-GP accesses performed by the readers. This is ensured by the bypass or nocb locking on enqueue time, followed by the fully ordered rnp locking initiated while callbacks are accelerated, and then propagated throughout the whole GP lifecyle associated with the callbacks. Therefore the explicit barrier advertizing ordering between bypass enqueue and rcuo wakeup is superfluous. If anything, it would even only order the first bypass callback enqueue against the rcuo wakeup and ignore all the subsequent ones. Remove the needless barrier. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay --- kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h index 14d183438423..4ffb8c90d695 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ static bool rcu_nocb_try_bypass(struct rcu_data *rdp, struct rcu_head *rhp, trace_rcu_nocb_wake(rcu_state.name, rdp->cpu, TPS("FirstBQ")); } rcu_nocb_bypass_unlock(rdp); - smp_mb(); /* Order enqueue before wake. */ + // A wake up of the grace period kthread or timer adjustment // needs to be done only if: // 1. Bypass list was fully empty before (this is the first