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mm: numa: guarantee that tlb_flush_pending updates are visible before…
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… page table updates

According to documentation on barriers, stores issued before a LOCK can
complete after the lock implying that it's possible tlb_flush_pending
can be visible after a page table update.  As per revised documentation,
this patch adds a smp_mb__before_spinlock to guarantee the correct
ordering.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored and Linus Torvalds committed Dec 19, 2013
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7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion include/linux/mm_types.h
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Expand Up @@ -482,7 +482,12 @@ static inline bool mm_tlb_flush_pending(struct mm_struct *mm)
static inline void set_tlb_flush_pending(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
mm->tlb_flush_pending = true;
barrier();

/*
* Guarantee that the tlb_flush_pending store does not leak into the
* critical section updating the page tables
*/
smp_mb__before_spinlock();
}
/* Clearing is done after a TLB flush, which also provides a barrier. */
static inline void clear_tlb_flush_pending(struct mm_struct *mm)
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