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mm/mmu_notifier.c: remove mmu_notifier_synchronize()
authorSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 08:33:28 +0000 (00:33 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 20:11:46 +0000 (12:11 -0800)
commit6a90a83f1d1957647581ca48caa1f7cc4fa44f8d
tree7a76c7b1232ce57f9d6b429d22ed236d0b503e76
parent5eb570a8d9248e0c1358078a59916d0e337e695b
mm/mmu_notifier.c: remove mmu_notifier_synchronize()

Contrary to its name, mmu_notifier_synchronize() does not synchronize the
notifier's SRCU instance, but rather waits for RCU callbacks to finish.
i.e.  it invokes rcu_barrier().  The RCU documentation is quite clear on
this matter, explicitly calling out that rcu_barrier() does not imply
synchronize_rcu().

As there are no callers of mmu_notifier_synchronize() and it's unclear
whether any user of mmu_notifier_call_srcu() will ever want to barrier on
their callbacks, simply remove the function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181106134705.14197-1-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
mm/mmu_notifier.c