Now that poll_wait() provides a full barrier we can remove smp_rmb() from io_uring_poll(). In fact I don't think smp_rmb() was correct, it can't serialize LOADs and STOREs. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> --- io_uring/io_uring.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/io_uring/io_uring.c b/io_uring/io_uring.c index 06ff41484e29..a64a82b93b86 100644 --- a/io_uring/io_uring.c +++ b/io_uring/io_uring.c @@ -2809,13 +2809,12 @@ static __poll_t io_uring_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait) if (unlikely(!ctx->poll_activated)) io_activate_pollwq(ctx); - - poll_wait(file, &ctx->poll_wq, wait); /* - * synchronizes with barrier from wq_has_sleeper call in - * io_commit_cqring + * provides mb() which pairs with barrier from wq_has_sleeper + * call in io_commit_cqring */ - smp_rmb(); + poll_wait(file, &ctx->poll_wq, wait); + if (!io_sqring_full(ctx)) mask |= EPOLLOUT | EPOLLWRNORM; -- 2.25.1.362.g51ebf55