linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH v3] mm: use READ_ONCE in page_cpupid_xchg

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Date:   Tue, 6 Dec 2016 09:53:14 +0800
From:   Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@...s.chinamobile.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
CC:     Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@...wei.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH v3] mm: use READ_ONCE in page_cpupid_xchg_last()

A compiler could re-read "old_flags" from the memory location after reading
and calculation "flags" and passes a newer value into the cmpxchg making 
the comparison succeed while it should actually fail.

Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
Suggested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
---
 mm/mmzone.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmzone.c b/mm/mmzone.c
index 5652be8..e0b698e 100644
--- a/mm/mmzone.c
+++ b/mm/mmzone.c
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ int page_cpupid_xchg_last(struct page *page, int cpupid)
 	int last_cpupid;
 
 	do {
-		old_flags = flags = page->flags;
+		old_flags = flags = READ_ONCE(page->flags);
 		last_cpupid = page_cpupid_last(page);
 
 		flags &= ~(LAST_CPUPID_MASK << LAST_CPUPID_PGSHIFT);
-- 
1.8.3.1