rcu: Remove ACCESS_ONCE() from jiffies
Because jiffies is one of a very few variables marked "volatile", there
is no need to use ACCESS_ONCE() when accessing it. This commit therefore
removes the redundant ACCESS_ONCE() wrappers.
Reported by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 321feef..73c3cd2 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@
* to the next. Only do this for the primary flavor of RCU.
*/
if (rdp->rsp == rcu_state &&
- ULONG_CMP_GE(ACCESS_ONCE(jiffies), rdp->rsp->jiffies_resched)) {
+ ULONG_CMP_GE(jiffies, rdp->rsp->jiffies_resched)) {
rdp->rsp->jiffies_resched += 5;
resched_cpu(rdp->cpu);
}
@@ -847,7 +847,7 @@
static void record_gp_stall_check_time(struct rcu_state *rsp)
{
- unsigned long j = ACCESS_ONCE(jiffies);
+ unsigned long j = jiffies;
unsigned long j1;
rsp->gp_start = j;
@@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@
if (rcu_cpu_stall_suppress || !rcu_gp_in_progress(rsp))
return;
- j = ACCESS_ONCE(jiffies);
+ j = jiffies;
/*
* Lots of memory barriers to reject false positives.