[PATCH] futex: remove unneeded barrier

When disassembling a kernel I found around over 90 sync Instructions from
mb, rmb and wmb calls in the kernel and only few of those make any sense to
me.  So here's the first one - I think the wmb() in kernel/futex.c is not
needed on uniprocessors so should become an smb_wmb().

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ralf Baechle 2006-12-06 20:40:26 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e384bd1692
commit ccdea2f88b

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@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ static void wake_futex(struct futex_q *q)
* at the end of wake_up_all() does not prevent this store from
* moving.
*/
wmb();
smp_wmb();
q->lock_ptr = NULL;
}