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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:36:12 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 4/7] mm: thp: turn put_compound_page() into
 __put_page_tail()
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On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 08:19:58PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> @@ -247,7 +242,7 @@ bool __get_page_tail(struct page *page)
>  	bool got;
>  	struct page *page_head = compound_trans_head(page);
>  
> -	/* Ref to put_compound_page() comment. */
> +	/* Ref to __put_page_tail() comment. */
>  	if (!__compound_tail_refcounted(page_head)) {
>  		smp_rmb();
>  		if (likely(PageTail(page))) {

What code is this against, my local tree doesn't have that smp_rmb().

This suggests its a recent patch; which is good since then we can still
drop it and wait for people to send one with a proper comment in.