Re: [PATCH] THP: fix comment about memory barrier

[Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>]

(2013/04/05 17:16), Minchan Kim wrote:
> Now, memory barrier in __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page doesn't work.
> Because lru_cache_add_lru uses pagevec so it could miss spinlock
> easily so above rule was broken so user might see inconsistent data.
> 
> I was not first person who pointed out the problem. Mel and Peter
> pointed out a few months ago and Peter pointed out further that
> even spin_lock/unlock can't make sure it.
> http://marc.info/?t=134333512700004
> 
> 	In particular:
> 
>          	*A = a;
>          	LOCK
>          	UNLOCK
>          	*B = b;
> 
> 	may occur as:
> 
>          	LOCK, STORE *B, STORE *A, UNLOCK
> 
> At last, Hugh pointed out that even we don't need memory barrier
> in there because __SetPageUpdate already have done it from
> Nick's [1] explicitly.
> 
> So this patch fixes comment on THP and adds same comment for
> do_anonymous_page, too because everybody except Hugh was missing
> that. It means we needs COMMENT about that.
> 
> [1] 0ed361dec "mm: fix PageUptodate data race"
> 
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>



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