Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: Add barriers and document switch_mm()-vs-flush synchronization follow-up

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Tue Aug 02 2016 - 18:43:00 EST


On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> While backporting 71b3c126e611 ("x86/mm: Add barriers and document switch_mm()-vs-flush synchronization")
>> we stumbled across a possibly missing barrier at flush_tlb_page().
>
> I too noticed it and submitted a similar patch that never got a response [1].
>
> Regards,
> Nadav
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/15/598
>

Yeah, sorry, I've been busy. I'll try to get to this soon.

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