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.comSigned-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>
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