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vhost: Remove redundant use of read_barrier_depends() barrier
Since commit 76ebbe78f7
("locking/barriers: Add implicit
smp_read_barrier_depends() to READ_ONCE()"), there is no need to use
smp_read_barrier_depends() outside of the Alpha architecture code.
Unfortunately, there is precisely _one_ user in the vhost code, and
there isn't an obvious READ_ONCE() access making the barrier
redundant. However, on closer inspection (thanks, Jason), it appears
that vring synchronisation between the producer and consumer occurs via
the 'avail_idx' field, which is followed up by an rmb() in
vhost_get_vq_desc(), making the read_barrier_depends() redundant on
Alpha.
Jason says:
| I'm also confused about the barrier here, basically in driver side
| we did:
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| 1) allocate pages
| 2) store pages in indirect->addr
| 3) smp_wmb()
| 4) increase the avail idx (somehow a tail pointer of vring)
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| in vhost we did:
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| 1) read avail idx
| 2) smp_rmb()
| 3) read indirect->addr
| 4) read from indirect->addr
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| It looks to me even the data dependency barrier is not necessary
| since we have rmb() which is sufficient for us to the correct
| indirect->addr and driver are not expected to do any writing to
| indirect->addr after avail idx is increased
Remove the redundant barrier invocation.
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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@ -2092,11 +2092,6 @@ static int get_indirect(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
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return ret;
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}
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iov_iter_init(&from, READ, vq->indirect, ret, len);
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/* We will use the result as an address to read from, so most
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* architectures only need a compiler barrier here. */
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read_barrier_depends();
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count = len / sizeof desc;
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/* Buffers are chained via a 16 bit next field, so
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* we can have at most 2^16 of these. */
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