This reverts commit 2f073848c3cc8aff2655ab7c46d8c0de90cf4e50. There is no need to use WRITE_ONCE() to initialise a non-RCU 'list_head'. Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/list.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/list.h b/include/linux/list.h index c7331c259792..b86a3f9465d4 100644 --- a/include/linux/list.h +++ b/include/linux/list.h @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ */ static inline void INIT_LIST_HEAD(struct list_head *list) { - WRITE_ONCE(list->next, list); + list->next = list; list->prev = list; } -- 2.20.1