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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>,
	Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Subject: [for-next][PATCH 5/8] tracing: Remove pointless memory barriers
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:49:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250723144928.172299624@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20250723144907.219256132@kernel.org

From: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>

Memory barriers are useful to ensure memory accesses from one CPU appear in
the original order as seen by other CPUs.

Some smp_rmb() and smp_wmb() are used, but they are not ordering multiple
memory accesses.

Remove them.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250626151940.1756398-1-namcao@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/rv/rv.c | 6 ------
 kernel/trace/trace.c | 7 -------
 2 files changed, 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/rv/rv.c b/kernel/trace/rv/rv.c
index e4077500a91d..c04a49da4328 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/rv/rv.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/rv/rv.c
@@ -675,8 +675,6 @@ static bool __read_mostly monitoring_on;
  */
 bool rv_monitoring_on(void)
 {
-	/* Ensures that concurrent monitors read consistent monitoring_on */
-	smp_rmb();
 	return READ_ONCE(monitoring_on);
 }
 
@@ -696,8 +694,6 @@ static ssize_t monitoring_on_read_data(struct file *filp, char __user *user_buf,
 static void turn_monitoring_off(void)
 {
 	WRITE_ONCE(monitoring_on, false);
-	/* Ensures that concurrent monitors read consistent monitoring_on */
-	smp_wmb();
 }
 
 static void reset_all_monitors(void)
@@ -713,8 +709,6 @@ static void reset_all_monitors(void)
 static void turn_monitoring_on(void)
 {
 	WRITE_ONCE(monitoring_on, true);
-	/* Ensures that concurrent monitors read consistent monitoring_on */
-	smp_wmb();
 }
 
 static void turn_monitoring_on_with_reset(void)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 95ae7c4e5835..0dff4298fc0e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -936,7 +936,6 @@ int tracing_is_enabled(void)
 	 * return the mirror variable of the state of the ring buffer.
 	 * It's a little racy, but we don't really care.
 	 */
-	smp_rmb();
 	return !global_trace.buffer_disabled;
 }
 
@@ -1107,8 +1106,6 @@ void tracer_tracing_on(struct trace_array *tr)
 	 * important to be fast than accurate.
 	 */
 	tr->buffer_disabled = 0;
-	/* Make the flag seen by readers */
-	smp_wmb();
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1640,8 +1637,6 @@ void tracer_tracing_off(struct trace_array *tr)
 	 * important to be fast than accurate.
 	 */
 	tr->buffer_disabled = 1;
-	/* Make the flag seen by readers */
-	smp_wmb();
 }
 
 /**
@@ -2710,8 +2705,6 @@ void trace_buffered_event_enable(void)
 
 static void enable_trace_buffered_event(void *data)
 {
-	/* Probably not needed, but do it anyway */
-	smp_rmb();
 	this_cpu_dec(trace_buffered_event_cnt);
 }
 
-- 
2.47.2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-07-23 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-23 14:49 [for-next][PATCH 0/8] tracing: Updates for v6.17 Steven Rostedt
2025-07-23 14:49 ` [for-next][PATCH 1/8] tracing: Replace opencoded cpumask_next_wrap() in move_to_next_cpu() Steven Rostedt
2025-07-23 14:49 ` [for-next][PATCH 2/8] tracing: Use queue_rcu_work() to free filters Steven Rostedt
2025-07-23 14:49 ` [for-next][PATCH 3/8] kernel: trace: preemptirq_delay_test: use offstack cpu mask Steven Rostedt
2025-07-23 14:49 ` [for-next][PATCH 4/8] tracing/sched: Remove obsolete comment on suffixes Steven Rostedt
2025-07-23 14:49 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2025-07-23 14:49 ` [for-next][PATCH 6/8] tracing: Remove EVENT_FILE_FL_SOFT_MODE flag Steven Rostedt
2025-07-23 14:49 ` [for-next][PATCH 7/8] tracing: Fix comment in trace_module_remove_events() Steven Rostedt
2025-07-23 14:49 ` [for-next][PATCH 8/8] tracing: Deprecate auto-mounting tracefs in debugfs Steven Rostedt

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