THP: fix comment about memory barrier
authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:08:15 +0000 (15:08 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:54:37 +0000 (15:54 -0700)
commit52f37629fd3c7b24e1e6c125e665454cd7ac1acb
tree8dd4a3b22cbb4d89f2b7e686189e8ced3319dcea
parentf1cb08798e2497238b28f377bd131426f0b9835d
THP: fix comment about memory barrier

Currently the memory barrier in __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page doesn't
work.  Because lru_cache_add_lru uses pagevec so it could miss spinlock
easily so above rule was broken so user might see inconsistent data.

I was not first person who pointed out the problem.  Mel and Peter
pointed out a few months ago and Peter pointed out further that even
spin_lock/unlock can't make sure of it:

  http://marc.info/?t=134333512700004

In particular:

         *A = a;
         LOCK
         UNLOCK
         *B = b;

may occur as:

         LOCK, STORE *B, STORE *A, UNLOCK

At last, Hugh pointed out that even we don't need memory barrier in
there because __SetPageUpdate already have done it from Nick's commit
0ed361dec369 ("mm: fix PageUptodate data race") explicitly.

So this patch fixes comment on THP and adds same comment for
do_anonymous_page, too because everybody except Hugh was missing that.
It means we need a comment about that.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/memory.c