Linux Virtualization - Jan 2018 - [tip:core/rcu] drivers/vhost: Remove now-redundant read_barrier_depends()

Commit-ID:  3a5db0b108e0a40f08c2bcff6a675dbf632b91e0
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/3a5db0b108e0a40f08c2bcff6a675dbf632b91e0
Author:     Paul E. McKenney <paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:45:10 -0800
Committer:  Paul E. McKenney <paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CommitDate: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 11:57:55 -0800

drivers/vhost: Remove now-redundant read_barrier_depends()

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 <paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
Cc: <kvm at vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <virtualization at lists.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <netdev at 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 33ac2b1..78b5940 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;
 }