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-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/qspinlock.c12
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
index 294294c71ba4..38ece035039e 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ static __always_inline void clear_pending_set_locked(struct qspinlock *lock)
* @tail : The new queue tail code word
* Return: The previous queue tail code word
*
- * xchg(lock, tail)
+ * xchg(lock, tail), which heads an address dependency
*
* p,*,* -> n,*,* ; prev = xchg(lock, node)
*/
@@ -409,13 +409,11 @@ queue:
if (old & _Q_TAIL_MASK) {
prev = decode_tail(old);
/*
- * The above xchg_tail() is also a load of @lock which generates,
- * through decode_tail(), a pointer.
- *
- * The address dependency matches the RELEASE of xchg_tail()
- * such that the access to @prev must happen after.
+ * The above xchg_tail() is also a load of @lock which
+ * generates, through decode_tail(), a pointer. The address
+ * dependency matches the RELEASE of xchg_tail() such that
+ * the subsequent access to @prev happens after.
*/
- smp_read_barrier_depends();
WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, node);