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Commit 108a7ac4 authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Linus Torvalds
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include/linux/page_ref.h: ensure page_ref_unfreeze is ordered against prior accesses

page_ref_freeze and page_ref_unfreeze are designed to be used as a pair,
wrapping a critical section where struct pages can be modified without
having to worry about consistency for a concurrent fast-GUP.

Whilst page_ref_freeze has full barrier semantics due to its use of
atomic_cmpxchg, page_ref_unfreeze is implemented using atomic_set, which
doesn't provide any barrier semantics and allows the operation to be
reordered with respect to page modifications in the critical section.

This patch ensures that page_ref_unfreeze is ordered after any critical
section updates, by invoking smp_mb() prior to the atomic_set.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497349722-6731-3-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSteve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent baabda26
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