On Tue 24-03-15 11:30:35, Jason Low wrote: > On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 11:30 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Mon 23-03-15 15:44:40, Jason Low wrote: > > > Commit 38c5ce936a08 converted ACCESS_ONCE usage in gup_pmd_range() to > > > READ_ONCE, since ACCESS_ONCE doesn't work reliably on non-scalar types. > > > > > > This patch removes the rest of the usages of ACCESS_ONCE, and use > > > READ_ONCE for the read accesses. This also makes things cleaner, > > > instead of using separate/multiple sets of APIs. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.l...@hp.com> > > > > Makes sense to me. I would prefer a patch split into two parts. One which > > changes potentially dangerous usage of ACCESS_ONCE and the cleanup. This > > will make the life of those who backport patches into older kernels > > easier a bit. > > Okay, so have a patch 1 which fixes the following: > > pte_t pte = ACCESS_ONCE(*ptep); > pgd_t pgd = ACCESS_ONCE(*pgdp); > > and the rest of the changes in the cleanup patch 2?
Thanks! > > > I won't insist though. > > > > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz> > > Thanks, > Jason > -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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/
