From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
paulmck <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: thp and memory barrier assumptions
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:31:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1343334698.32120.11.camel@twins> (raw)
__do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page() contains:
/*
* The spinlocking to take the lru_lock inside
* page_add_new_anon_rmap() acts as a full memory
* barrier to be sure clear_huge_page writes become
* visible after the set_pmd_at() write.
*/
page_add_new_anon_rmap(page, vma, haddr);
page_add_new_anon_rmap() doesn't look to actually do a LOCK+UNLOCK
except for unevictable pages.
But even if it did do an unconditional LOCK+UNLOCK that doesn't make a
full memory barrier, see Documentation/memory-barriers.txt.
In particular:
*A = a;
LOCK
UNLOCK
*B = b;
may occur as:
LOCK, STORE *B, STORE *A, UNLOCK
next reply other threads:[~2012-07-26 20:31 UTC|newest]
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2012-07-26 20:31 Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-07-26 20:33 ` thp and memory barrier assumptions Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-03 19:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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