Re: [PATCH v2] mm/huge_memory.c: reorder operations in __split_huge_page_tail()

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 06:32:10PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 6:14 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov
> <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 05:29:37PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> >> And replace page_ref_inc()/page_ref_add() with page_ref_unfreeze() which
> >> is made especially for that and has semantic of smp_store_release().
> >
> > Nak on this part.
> >
> > page_ref_unfreeze() uses atomic_set() which neglects the situation in the
> > comment you're removing.
> 
> Why? look into x86 smp_store_release
> for PPro it use same sequence smp_wb + WRITE_ONCE
> As I see spin_unlock uses exactly this macro.
> 
> Anyway if page_ref_unfreeze cannot handle races with
> get_page_unless_zero() then it completely useless,

Okay, fair enough.

But please call it out it the commit message.

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 Kirill A. Shutemov