On 01/25, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > +void __percpu_ref_get(struct percpu_ref *ref, bool alloc)
> > +{
> > + unsigned long pcpu_count;
> > + uint64_t v;
> > +
> > + pcpu_count = ACCESS_ONCE(ref->pcpu_count);
> > +
> > + if (REF_STATUS(pcpu_count) == PCPU_REF_PTR) {
> > + /* for rcu - we're not using rcu_dereference() */
> > + smp_read_barrier_depends();
> > + __this_cpu_inc(*((unsigned __percpu *) pcpu_count));
>
> The comment looks confusing a bit... smp_read_barrier_depends() is not
> for rcu, we obviously need it to access (unsigned __percpu *) pcpu_count.
> But yes, since we didn't use rcu_dereference() we have to add it by hand.
Hmm. Otoh, arch/alpha uses asm-generic/percpu.h so in theory we need
smp_read_barrier_depends() after __this_cpu_generic_to_op() calculates the
"real" pointer, __this_cpu_ptr() ?
Just curious...
Oleg.
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