[PATCH 4/6] 9p: Remove an unnecessary memory barrier

From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>,
	Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>,
	Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] 9p: Remove an unnecessary memory barrier
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 06:26:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180628132629.3148-5-willy@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180628132629.3148-1-willy@infradead.org>

And add a comment about why we don't need it.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
---
 net/9p/client.c | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/9p/client.c b/net/9p/client.c
index 602f76de388a..2dce8d8307cc 100644
--- a/net/9p/client.c
+++ b/net/9p/client.c
@@ -436,13 +436,9 @@ void p9_client_cb(struct p9_client *c, struct p9_req_t *req, int status)
 {
 	p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_MUX, " tag %d\n", req->tc->tag);
 
-	/*
-	 * This barrier is needed to make sure any change made to req before
-	 * the other thread wakes up will indeed be seen by the waiting side.
-	 */
-	smp_wmb();
 	req->status = status;
 
+	/* wake_up is an implicit write memory barrier */
 	wake_up(&req->wq);
 	p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_MUX, "wakeup: %d\n", req->tc->tag);
 }
-- 
2.18.0
