[PATCH] KVM: Remove redundant smp_mb() in the kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page()

From: Lan Tianyu
Date: Thu Mar 03 2016 - 20:51:45 EST


The following kvm_flush_remote_tlbs() will call smp_mb() inside and so
remove smp_mb() here.

Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index a54ecd9..6315416 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -2383,12 +2383,6 @@ static void kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page(struct kvm *kvm,
return;

/*
- * wmb: make sure everyone sees our modifications to the page tables
- * rmb: make sure we see changes to vcpu->mode
- */
- smp_mb();
-
- /*
* Wait for all vcpus to exit guest mode and/or lockless shadow
* page table walks.
*/
--
1.8.4.rc0.1.g8f6a3e5.dirty