linux-kernel - [PATCH] khugepaged: Raplace barrier() with READ

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Message-Id: <20210323092730.247583-1-yanfei.xu@windriver.com>
Date:   Tue, 23 Mar 2021 17:27:30 +0800
From:   yanfei.xu@...driver.com
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] khugepaged: Raplace barrier() with READ_ONCE() for a selective variable

From: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@...driver.com>

READ_ONCE() is more selective and lightweight. It is more appropriate that
using a READ_ONCE() for the certain variable to prevent the compiler from
reordering.

Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@...driver.com>
---
 mm/khugepaged.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index b81521dfbb1a..034d05a26cb0 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -2202,11 +2202,9 @@ static void khugepaged_do_scan(void)
 {
 	struct page *hpage = NULL;
 	unsigned int progress = 0, pass_through_head = 0;
-	unsigned int pages = khugepaged_pages_to_scan;
+	unsigned int pages = READ_ONCE(khugepaged_pages_to_scan);
 	bool wait = true;
 
-	barrier(); /* write khugepaged_pages_to_scan to local stack */
-
 	lru_add_drain_all();
 
 	while (progress < pages) {
-- 
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