Commit-ID: 7f0ec32526d2446fdd79b0c6c6d08e64ef9fb1f3 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/7f0ec32526d2446fdd79b0c6c6d08e64ef9fb1f3 Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:17:58 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 10:31:58 +0200 perf/core: Remove wrong barrier The barrier and comment make no sense: - if what the barrier says is true, it should be wmb() but that should then be part of the arch driver, not the generic code. - if it is an SMP barrier, there must be a matching barrier, and there isn't one. So kill it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/core.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 6322e24..205a432 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -2097,11 +2097,6 @@ event_sched_in(struct perf_event *event, event->hw.interrupts = 0; } - /* - * The new state must be visible before we turn it on in the hardware: - */ - smp_wmb(); - perf_pmu_disable(event->pmu); perf_set_shadow_time(event, ctx, tstamp); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html