linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/18] mm: fix TLB flush race between migration, and change_protection

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Date:	Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:25:39 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alex Thorlton <athorlton@....com>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/18] mm: fix TLB flush race between migration, and change_protection_range

On 12/09/2013 02:09 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:

After reading the locking thread that Paul McKenney started,
I wonder if I got the barriers wrong in these functions...

> +#if defined(CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING) || defined(CONFIG_COMPACTION)
> +/*
> + * Memory barriers to keep this state in sync are graciously provided by
> + * the page table locks, outside of which no page table modifications happen.
> + * The barriers below prevent the compiler from re-ordering the instructions
> + * around the memory barriers that are already present in the code.
> + */
> +static inline bool tlb_flush_pending(struct mm_struct *mm)
> +{
> +	barrier();

Should this be smp_mb__after_unlock_lock(); ?

> +	return mm->tlb_flush_pending;
> +}
> +static inline void set_tlb_flush_pending(struct mm_struct *mm)
> +{
> +	mm->tlb_flush_pending = true;
> +	barrier();
> +}
> +/* Clearing is done after a TLB flush, which also provides a barrier. */
> +static inline void clear_tlb_flush_pending(struct mm_struct *mm)
> +{
> +	barrier();
> +	mm->tlb_flush_pending = false;
> +}

And these smp_mb__before_spinlock() ?

Paul? Peter?

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