Re: WARNING in __mmdrop

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 04:05:17AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 10:17:14AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > So even PTE is read speculatively before reading invalidate_count (only in
> > the case of invalidate_count is zero). The spinlock has guaranteed that we
> > won't read any stale PTEs.
> 
> I'm sorry I just do not get the argument.
> If you want to order two reads you need an smp_rmb
> or stronger between them executed on the same CPU.

No, that is only for unlocked algorithms.

In this case the spinlock provides all the 'or stronger' ordering
required.

For invalidate_count going 0->1 the spin_lock ensures that any
following PTE update during invalidation does not order before the
spin_lock()

While holding the lock and observing 1 in invalidate_count the PTE
values might be changing, but are ignored. C's rules about sequencing
make this safe.

For invalidate_count going 1->0 the spin_unlock ensures that any
preceeding PTE update during invalidation does not order after the
spin_unlock

While holding the lock and observing 0 in invalidating_count the PTE
values cannot be changing.

Jason