Queued spinlocks are not used by DEC Alpha, and furthermore operations such as READ_ONCE() and release/relaxed RMW atomics are being changed to imply smp_read_barrier_depends(). This commit therefore removes the now-redundant smp_read_barrier_depends() from queued_spin_lock_slowpath(), and adjusts the comments accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> --- kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c index 294294c71ba4..38ece035039e 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ static __always_inline void clear_pending_set_locked(struct qspinlock *lock) * @tail : The new queue tail code word * Return: The previous queue tail code word * - * xchg(lock, tail) + * xchg(lock, tail), which heads an address dependency * * p,*,* -> n,*,* ; prev = xchg(lock, node) */ @@ -409,13 +409,11 @@ void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val) if (old & _Q_TAIL_MASK) { prev = decode_tail(old); /* - * The above xchg_tail() is also a load of @lock which generates, - * through decode_tail(), a pointer. - * - * The address dependency matches the RELEASE of xchg_tail() - * such that the access to @prev must happen after. + * The above xchg_tail() is also a load of @lock which + * generates, through decode_tail(), a pointer. The address + * dependency matches the RELEASE of xchg_tail() such that + * the subsequent access to @prev happens after. */ - smp_read_barrier_depends(); WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, node); -- 2.5.2
