atomic_inc_return() already does an implicit memory barrier and the second case was moved from an atomic to a plain flag operation. If a barrier were needed in the second case, it would have to be smp_mb(), not a variant optimized away for x86 and other architectures. Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c index 7fa62fc93e0b..0b43761ed85f 100644 --- a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c @@ -1166,7 +1166,6 @@ transport_check_alloc_task_attr(struct se_cmd *cmd) * Dormant to Active status. */ cmd->se_ordered_id = atomic_inc_return(&dev->dev_ordered_id); - smp_mb__after_atomic(); pr_debug("Allocated se_ordered_id: %u for Task Attr: 0x%02x on %s\n", cmd->se_ordered_id, cmd->sam_task_attr, dev->transport->name); @@ -2896,7 +2895,6 @@ void transport_send_task_abort(struct se_cmd *cmd) if (cmd->se_tfo->write_pending_status(cmd) != 0) { cmd->transport_state |= CMD_T_ABORTED; cmd->se_cmd_flags |= SCF_SEND_DELAYED_TAS; - smp_mb__after_atomic(); return; } } -- 2.0.0.rc0.1.g7b2ba98 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html