linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 2/4] Cleanup: sched/membarrier: remove redundant check

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Date:   Thu,  5 Sep 2019 23:12:58 -0400
From:   Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...dex.ru>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 2/4] Cleanup: sched/membarrier: remove redundant check

Checking that the number of threads is 1 is redundant with checking
mm_users == 1.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...dex.ru>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/membarrier.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
index 5110d91b1b0e..7e0a0d6535f3 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ static int membarrier_register_global_expedited(void)
 	    MEMBARRIER_STATE_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED_READY)
 		return 0;
 	atomic_or(MEMBARRIER_STATE_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED, &mm->membarrier_state);
-	if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 1 && get_nr_threads(p) == 1) {
+	if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 1) {
 		/*
 		 * For single mm user, single threaded process, we can
 		 * simply issue a memory barrier after setting
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ static int membarrier_register_private_expedited(int flags)
 	if (flags & MEMBARRIER_FLAG_SYNC_CORE)
 		atomic_or(MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE,
 			  &mm->membarrier_state);
-	if (!(atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 1 && get_nr_threads(p) == 1)) {
+	if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) != 1) {
 		/*
 		 * Ensure all future scheduler executions will observe the
 		 * new thread flag state for this process.
-- 
2.17.1