RE: [PATCH 8/8] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Remove the lock field from the vmbus_channel struct
From: Michael Kelley <hidden>
Date: 2020-06-18 18:35:54
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From: Michael Kelley <hidden>
Date: 2020-06-18 18:35:54
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From: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 9:47 AM
The spinlock is (now) *not used to protect test-and-set accesses
to attributes of the structure or sc_list operations.
There is, AFAICT, a distinct lack of {WRITE,READ}_ONCE()s in the
handling of channel->state, but the changes below do not seem to
make things "worse". ;-)
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
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drivers/hv/channel.c | 6 +-----
drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c | 1 -
include/linux/hyperv.h | 6 ------
3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-)Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <redacted>