Re: [PATCH] s390: drop smp_mb in vdso_init

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Thu Jan 07 2016 - 03:41:55 EST


On 01/05/2016 05:17 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> The initial s390 vdso code is heavily influenced by the powerpc version
> which does have a smp_wmb in vdso_init right before the vdso_ready=1
> assignment. s390 has no need for that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Untested.
>
> arch/s390/kernel/vdso.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/s390/kernel/vdso.c
> index 59eddb0..a1cfd37 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kernel/vdso.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/vdso.c
> @@ -299,8 +299,6 @@ static int __init vdso_init(void)
>
> get_page(virt_to_page(vdso_data));
>
> - smp_mb();
> -
> return 0;
> }
> early_initcall(vdso_init);
>

applied to the s390 tree.
Thanks.

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