On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 02:21:37PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Also, set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING) is dodgy (similarly in > __blk_mq_poll), why do you need that memory barrier? You're right. The subsequent revision that was committed removed the barrier. The commit is here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=67b4110f8c8d16e588d7730db8e8b01b32c1bd8b I hope the code at least looks more reasonable. The changelog isn't much different, though.