As Paul pointed out, the ACCESS_ONCE are not needed because we already have the explicit surrounding memory barriers. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers CC: Christoph Hellwig CC: Andrew Morton CC: Mike Mason CC: Dipankar Sarma CC: David Smith CC: "Paul E. McKenney" CC: Steven Rostedt CC: Adrian Bunk --- kernel/marker.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6-lttng/kernel/marker.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/kernel/marker.c 2008-03-19 18:30:26.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6-lttng/kernel/marker.c 2008-03-19 18:32:16.000000000 -0400 @@ -109,13 +109,13 @@ void marker_probe_cb(const struct marker * modules and they insure RCU read coherency. */ preempt_disable(); - ptype = ACCESS_ONCE(mdata->ptype); + ptype = mdata->ptype; if (likely(!ptype)) { marker_probe_func *func; /* Must read the ptype before ptr. They are not data dependant, * so we put an explicit smp_rmb() here. */ smp_rmb(); - func = ACCESS_ONCE(mdata->single.func); + func = mdata->single.func; /* Must read the ptr before private data. They are not data * dependant, so we put an explicit smp_rmb() here. */ smp_rmb(); @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ void marker_probe_cb(const struct marker * in the fast path, so put the explicit barrier here. */ smp_read_barrier_depends(); - multi = ACCESS_ONCE(mdata->multi); + multi = mdata->multi; for (i = 0; multi[i].func; i++) { va_start(args, fmt); multi[i].func(multi[i].probe_private, call_private, fmt, @@ -161,13 +161,13 @@ void marker_probe_cb_noarg(const struct char ptype; preempt_disable(); - ptype = ACCESS_ONCE(mdata->ptype); + ptype = mdata->ptype; if (likely(!ptype)) { marker_probe_func *func; /* Must read the ptype before ptr. They are not data dependant, * so we put an explicit smp_rmb() here. */ smp_rmb(); - func = ACCESS_ONCE(mdata->single.func); + func = mdata->single.func; /* Must read the ptr before private data. They are not data * dependant, so we put an explicit smp_rmb() here. */ smp_rmb(); @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ void marker_probe_cb_noarg(const struct * in the fast path, so put the explicit barrier here. */ smp_read_barrier_depends(); - multi = ACCESS_ONCE(mdata->multi); + multi = mdata->multi; for (i = 0; multi[i].func; i++) multi[i].func(multi[i].probe_private, call_private, fmt, &args); -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/