From a9668cd6ee288c4838bc668880ac085be551cac2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 17:51:27 +0200 Subject: locking: Remove smp_mb__before_spinlock() Now that there are no users of smp_mb__before_spinlock() left, remove it entirely. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h') diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h index b103888b694a..ae4241ab19a8 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h @@ -358,15 +358,6 @@ static inline int arch_read_trylock(arch_rwlock_t *rw) #define arch_read_relax(lock) cpu_relax() #define arch_write_relax(lock) cpu_relax() -/* - * Accesses appearing in program order before a spin_lock() operation - * can be reordered with accesses inside the critical section, by virtue - * of arch_spin_lock being constructed using acquire semantics. - * - * In cases where this is problematic (e.g. try_to_wake_up), an - * smp_mb__before_spinlock() can restore the required ordering. - */ -#define smp_mb__before_spinlock() smp_mb() /* See include/linux/spinlock.h */ #define smp_mb__after_spinlock() smp_mb() -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b