From: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 09:52:19 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: vhost: remove unnecessary smp_mb from vhost_work_queue
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=635abf01918157e61dc9cfdfd70c40bd5957b6a3;p=linux-beck.git

vhost: remove unnecessary smp_mb from vhost_work_queue

test_and_set_bit() already implies a memory barrier.

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index c6f2d89c0e97..266354390c8f 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -261,8 +261,8 @@ void vhost_work_queue(struct vhost_dev *dev, struct vhost_work *work)
 	if (!test_and_set_bit(VHOST_WORK_QUEUED, &work->flags)) {
 		/* We can only add the work to the list after we're
 		 * sure it was not in the list.
+		 * test_and_set_bit() implies a memory barrier.
 		 */
-		smp_mb();
 		llist_add(&work->node, &dev->work_list);
 		wake_up_process(dev->worker);
 	}