On Mon, 1 Apr 2013, Minchan Kim wrote: > __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page depends on page_add_new_anon_rmap's > spinlock for making sure that clear_huge_page write become visible > after set set_pmd_at() write. > > But lru_cache_add_lru uses pagevec so it could miss spinlock > easily so above rule was broken so user may see inconsistent data. > > This patch fixes it with using explict barrier rather than depending > on lru spinlock. >
Is this the same issue that Andrea responded to in the "thp and memory barrier assumptions" thread at http://marc.info/?t=134333512700004 ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
