mm/page_alloc: insert memory barriers to allow async update of pcp batch and high
Introduce pageset_update() to perform a safe transision from one set of pcp->{batch,high} to a new set using memory barriers. This ensures that batch is always set to a safe value (1) prior to updating high, and ensure that high is fully updated before setting the real value of batch. It avoids ->batch ever rising above ->high. Suggested by Gilad Ben-Yossef in these threads: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/9/23 https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/10/49 Also reproduces his proposed comment. Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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