linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm, memcg: narrow the scope of percpu_charge

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Date:   Tue, 3 Aug 2021 09:27:52 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc:     Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        "hannes@...xchg.org" <hannes@...xchg.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm, memcg: narrow the scope of percpu_charge_mutex

On Tue 03-08-21 07:13:35, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> I’d go with atomic_dec().

which is not implying memory barriers either. You would need
atomic_dec_return or some other explicit barrier IIRC.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs