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Commit 8d7a8fa9 authored by Cody P Schafer's avatar Cody P Schafer Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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: default avatarCody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGilad 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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