Commit-ID:  bf92b1feb658f6a262daf3a87d790997a1dca0ff
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/bf92b1feb658f6a262daf3a87d790997a1dca0ff
Author:     Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 10:05:15 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:54:23 +0200

x86/mce: Remove explicit smp_rmb() when starting CPUs sync

mce_start() has an explicit smp_wmb() to serialize writes to global_nwo
and mce_callin. However, atomic_inc_return() implies barriers on both
sides of the call, as such simply rely on this full SMP barrier.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: linux-edac <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index f0c921b..6b7039c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -830,9 +830,9 @@ static int mce_start(int *no_way_out)
 
        atomic_add(*no_way_out, &global_nwo);
        /*
-        * global_nwo should be updated before mce_callin
+        * Rely on the implied barrier below, such that global_nwo
+        * is updated before mce_callin.
         */
-       smp_wmb();
        order = atomic_inc_return(&mce_callin);
 
        /*

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