The following commit has been merged into the x86/mm branch of tip: Commit-ID: 0aa82c4e78ca59a2246a28112adbee7d0a692f27 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/0aa82c4e78ca59a2246a28112adbee7d0a692f27 Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:47:29 +02:00 Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 13:44:05 +01:00 mm: Remove pointless barrier() after pmdp_get_lockless() pmdp_get_lockless() should itself imply any ordering required. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221022114425.298833095%40infradead.org --- mm/hmm.c | 1 - mm/vmscan.c | 3 --- 2 files changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c index 39cf50d..601a99c 100644 --- a/mm/hmm.c +++ b/mm/hmm.c @@ -362,7 +362,6 @@ again: * values. */ pmd = pmdp_get_lockless(pmdp); - barrier(); if (!pmd_devmap(pmd) && !pmd_trans_huge(pmd)) goto again; diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 88ef873..4936a88 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -4041,9 +4041,6 @@ restart: for (i = pmd_index(start), addr = start; addr != end; i++, addr = next) { pmd_t val = pmdp_get_lockless(pmd + i); - /* for pmdp_get_lockless() */ - barrier(); - next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end); if (!pmd_present(val) || is_huge_zero_pmd(val)) {