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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2017-06-07 17:51:27 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-08-10 12:29:03 +0200
commita9668cd6ee288c4838bc668880ac085be551cac2 (patch)
tree5a4b71cef5d9f8acf8f2c67c4c518146b1c49a51 /arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
parentlocking: Introduce smp_mb__after_spinlock() (diff)
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locking: Remove smp_mb__before_spinlock()
Now that there are no users of smp_mb__before_spinlock() left, remove it entirely. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h9
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
index b103888b694a..ae4241ab19a8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -358,15 +358,6 @@ static inline int arch_read_trylock(arch_rwlock_t *rw)
#define arch_read_relax(lock) cpu_relax()
#define arch_write_relax(lock) cpu_relax()
-/*
- * Accesses appearing in program order before a spin_lock() operation
- * can be reordered with accesses inside the critical section, by virtue
- * of arch_spin_lock being constructed using acquire semantics.
- *
- * In cases where this is problematic (e.g. try_to_wake_up), an
- * smp_mb__before_spinlock() can restore the required ordering.
- */
-#define smp_mb__before_spinlock() smp_mb()
/* See include/linux/spinlock.h */
#define smp_mb__after_spinlock() smp_mb()