Recently lockless_dereference() was added which can be used in place of
hard-coding smp_read_barrier_depends(). The following PATCH makes the change.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.pr...@gmail.com>
---
include/linux/hyperv.h | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/hyperv.h b/include/linux/hyperv.h
index 08cfaff..06418b1 100644
--- a/include/linux/hyperv.h
+++ b/include/linux/hyperv.h
@@ -127,13 +127,12 @@ hv_get_ringbuffer_availbytes(struct hv_ring_buffer_info
*rbi,
u32 *read, u32 *write)
{
u32 read_loc, write_loc, dsize;
-
- smp_read_barrier_depends();
+ struct hv_ring_buffer_info *rbi_p = lockless_dereference(rbi);
/* Capture the read/write indices before they changed */
- read_loc = rbi->ring_buffer->read_index;
- write_loc = rbi->ring_buffer->write_index;
- dsize = rbi->ring_datasize;
+ read_loc = rbi_p->ring_buffer->read_index;
+ write_loc = rbi_p->ring_buffer->write_index;
+ dsize = rbi_p->ring_datasize;
*write = write_loc >= read_loc ? dsize - (write_loc - read_loc) :
read_loc - write_loc;
--
1.9.1
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