4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> commit b5fc6d943808b570bdfbec80f40c6b3855f1c48b upstream. atomic64_inc_return() already implies smp_mb() before and after. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Laight <david.lai...@aculab.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <edu...@amazon.com> Cc: Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> Cc: aligu...@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gr...@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hu...@google.com Cc: keesc...@google.com Cc: linux...@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 8 +------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h @@ -60,19 +60,13 @@ static inline void invpcid_flush_all_non static inline u64 inc_mm_tlb_gen(struct mm_struct *mm) { - u64 new_tlb_gen; - /* * Bump the generation count. This also serves as a full barrier * that synchronizes with switch_mm(): callers are required to order * their read of mm_cpumask after their writes to the paging * structures. */ - smp_mb__before_atomic(); - new_tlb_gen = atomic64_inc_return(&mm->context.tlb_gen); - smp_mb__after_atomic(); - - return new_tlb_gen; + return atomic64_inc_return(&mm->context.tlb_gen); } #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT