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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>, Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] futex: Reduce the scope of lock_page, aka lockless futex_get_key()
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 13:11:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160105211140.GA15919@linux-uzut.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160105204342.GA15465@linux-uzut.site>

On Tue, 05 Jan 2016, Bueso wrote:

>On Tue, 05 Jan 2016, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 12:23:55PM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>>>+	if (unlikely(!mapping)) {
>>>+		int shmem_swizzled;
>>>+
>>>+		/*
>>>+		 * Page lock is required to identify which special case above
>>>+		 * applies. If this is really a shmem page then the page lock
>>>+		 * will prevent unexpected transitions.
>>>+		 */
>>>+		lock_page(page);
>>>+		shmem_swizzled = PageSwapCache(page);
>>> 		unlock_page(page);
>>> 		put_page(page);
>>>+		WARN_ON_ONCE(mapping);
>>
>>We've not re-loaded mapping, so how could this possibly be?
>
>Yep, this wants to be page->mapping.

Actually under compound_head() afaict, along with the rest of the page->mapping
loads.

      reply	other threads:[~2016-01-05 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-05 20:23 [PATCH] futex: Reduce the scope of lock_page, aka lockless futex_get_key() Davidlohr Bueso
2016-01-05 20:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-05 20:43   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-01-05 21:11     ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]

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