[PATCH 02/10] x86/asm: Drop a comment left over from X86_OOSTORE
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Jan 26 2016 - 16:12:22 EST
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
The comment about wmb() being non-nop to deal with non-intel CPUs is a
left over from before commit
09df7c4c8097 ("x86: Remove CONFIG_X86_OOSTORE").
It makes no sense now: in particular, wmb() is not a nop even for regular
intel CPUs because of weird use-cases e.g. dealing with WC memory.
Drop this comment.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: virtualization <virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452715911-12067-3-git-send-email-mst@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
index 5bce7865b623..d2aa66a3a4b5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -11,10 +11,6 @@
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-/*
- * Some non-Intel clones support out of order store. wmb() ceases to be a
- * nop for these.
- */
#define mb() asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("lock; addl $0,0(%%esp)", "mfence", \
X86_FEATURE_XMM2) ::: "memory", "cc")
#define rmb() asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("lock; addl $0,0(%%esp)", "lfence", \
--
2.3.5