This barrier only applies to the read-modify-write operations; in
particular, it does not apply to the atomic_set() primitive.
Replace the barrier with an smp_mb().
Fixes: dac56212e8127 ("bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_cnt for most use cases")
Cc: [email protected]
Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Ming Lei <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/bio.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index ea73df36529ad..0f23b56826403 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ static inline void bio_cnt_set(struct bio *bio, unsigned
int count)
{
if (count != 1) {
bio->bi_flags |= (1 << BIO_REFFED);
- smp_mb__before_atomic();
+ smp_mb();
}
atomic_set(&bio->__bi_cnt, count);
}
--
2.7.4
