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
next prev 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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