Re: [PATCH] kvm/s390: drop unpaired smp_mb

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Thu Jan 07 2016 - 03:25:16 EST


On 01/05/2016 05:20 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> smp_mb on vcpu destroy isn't paired with anything, violating pairing
> rules, and seems to be useless.
>
> Drop it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.
(I had to fix this up a little to match kvm/next)

Thanks

> ---
>
> Untested.
>
> arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> index 8465892..7305d2c 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> @@ -1195,7 +1195,6 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> (__u64) vcpu->arch.sie_block)
> vcpu->kvm->arch.sca->cpu[vcpu->vcpu_id].sda = 0;
> }
> - smp_mb();
>
> if (kvm_is_ucontrol(vcpu->kvm))
> gmap_free(vcpu->arch.gmap);
>

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