Re: [PATCH 1/3] sched, timer: Remove usages of ACCESS_ONCE in the scheduler

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 20:24 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Would it make sense to add a few comments to the seq field definition 
> > site(s), about how it's supposed to be accessed - or to the 
> > READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() sites, to keep people from wondering?
> 
> How about this:
> 
> ---
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 5a44371..63fa87f 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -1794,6 +1794,11 @@ static void task_numa_placement(struct task_struct *p)
>  	u64 runtime, period;
>  	spinlock_t *group_lock = NULL;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * The p->mm->numa_scan_seq gets updated without
> +	 * exclusive access. Use READ_ONCE() here to ensure
> +	 * that the field is read in a single access.
> +	 */
>  	seq = READ_ONCE(p->mm->numa_scan_seq);
>  	if (p->numa_scan_seq == seq)
>  		return;
> @@ -2107,6 +2112,13 @@ void task_numa_fault(int last_cpupid, int mem_node, int pages, int flags)
>  
>  static void reset_ptenuma_scan(struct task_struct *p)
>  {
> +	/*
> +	 * We only did a read acquisition of the mmap sem, so
> +	 * p->mm->numa_scan_seq is written to without exclusive access.
> +	 * That's not much of an issue though, since this is just used
> +	 * for statistical sampling. Use WRITE_ONCE and READ_ONCE, which
> +	 * are not expensive, to avoid load/store tearing.
> +	 */
>  	WRITE_ONCE(p->mm->numa_scan_seq, READ_ONCE(p->mm->numa_scan_seq) + 1);
>  	p->mm->numa_scan_offset = 0;
>  }

Perfect! It just needs a changelog and a SOB.

Thanks,

	Ingo