linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 4/7] mm: thp: turn put_compound_page() into __put_page

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Date:	Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:36:12 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 4/7] mm: thp: turn put_compound_page() into
 __put_page_tail()

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 08:19:58PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> @@ -247,7 +242,7 @@ bool __get_page_tail(struct page *page)
>  	bool got;
>  	struct page *page_head = compound_trans_head(page);
>  
> -	/* Ref to put_compound_page() comment. */
> +	/* Ref to __put_page_tail() comment. */
>  	if (!__compound_tail_refcounted(page_head)) {
>  		smp_rmb();
>  		if (likely(PageTail(page))) {

What code is this against, my local tree doesn't have that smp_rmb().

This suggests its a recent patch; which is good since then we can still
drop it and wait for people to send one with a proper comment in.
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