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When CPUs start and stop the watchdog, they manipulate shared data that is normally protected by the lock. Other CPUs can be running concurrently at this time, so it's a good idea to use locking here to be on the safe side. Remove the barrier which is undocumented and didn't do anything. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>