Because READ_ONCE() now implies read_barrier_depends(), the
read_barrier_depends() in next_desc() is now redundant. This commit
therefore removes it and the related comments.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com>
Cc: <k...@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <virtualizat...@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
---
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 7 +------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 33ac2b186b85..78b5940a415a 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -1877,12 +1877,7 @@ static unsigned next_desc(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
struct vring_desc *desc)
return -1U;
/* Check they're not leading us off end of descriptors. */
- next = vhost16_to_cpu(vq, desc->next);
- /* Make sure compiler knows to grab that: we don't want it changing! */
- /* We will use the result as an index in an array, so most
- * architectures only need a compiler barrier here. */
- read_barrier_depends();
-
+ next = vhost16_to_cpu(vq, READ_ONCE(desc->next));
return next;
}
--
2.5.2
