From 45870a441361d1c05a5f767c4ece2f6e30e0da9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vitaly Kuznetsov Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:01:58 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: ring_buffer: remove stray smp_read_barrier_depends() smp_read_barrier_depends() does nothing on almost all arcitectures including x86 and having it in the beginning of hv_get_ringbuffer_availbytes() does not provide any guarantees anyway. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/hyperv.h | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/hyperv.h b/include/linux/hyperv.h index acd995b81c6b..179ff330af59 100644 --- a/include/linux/hyperv.h +++ b/include/linux/hyperv.h @@ -141,8 +141,6 @@ hv_get_ringbuffer_availbytes(struct hv_ring_buffer_info *rbi, { u32 read_loc, write_loc, dsize; - smp_read_barrier_depends(); - /* Capture the read/write indices before they changed */ read_loc = rbi->ring_buffer->read_index; write_loc = rbi->ring_buffer->write_index; -- 2.30.2