Because READ_ONCE() now implies read_barrier_depends(), the read_barrier_depends() in next_desc() is now redundant. This commit therefore removes it and the related comments. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c index 33ac2b186b85..78b5940a415a 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -1877,12 +1877,7 @@ static unsigned next_desc(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, struct vring_desc *desc) return -1U; /* Check they're not leading us off end of descriptors. */ - next = vhost16_to_cpu(vq, desc->next); - /* Make sure compiler knows to grab that: we don't want it changing! */ - /* We will use the result as an index in an array, so most - * architectures only need a compiler barrier here. */ - read_barrier_depends(); - + next = vhost16_to_cpu(vq, READ_ONCE(desc->next)); return next; } -- 2.5.2