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btrfs: Remove redundant memory barrier in dev stats

As per atomic_t.txt documentation :
 - RMW operations that have a return value are fully ordered;

atomic_xchg is one such operation so it already includes everything it
needs w.r.t memory ordering and add a comment to be more explicit about
that.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Nikolay Borisov 7 years ago
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      fs/btrfs/volumes.h

+ 7 - 1
fs/btrfs/volumes.h

@@ -519,7 +519,13 @@ static inline int btrfs_dev_stat_read_and_reset(struct btrfs_device *dev,
 	int ret;
 	int ret;
 
 
 	ret = atomic_xchg(dev->dev_stat_values + index, 0);
 	ret = atomic_xchg(dev->dev_stat_values + index, 0);
-	smp_mb__before_atomic();
+	/*
+	 * atomic_xchg implies a full memory barriers as per atomic_t.txt:
+	 * - RMW operations that have a return value are fully ordered;
+	 *
+	 * This implicit memory barriers is paired with the smp_rmb in
+	 * btrfs_run_dev_stats
+	 */
 	atomic_inc(&dev->dev_stats_ccnt);
 	atomic_inc(&dev->dev_stats_ccnt);
 	return ret;
 	return ret;
 }
 }