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mm: change mm_update_next_owner() to update mm->owner with WRITE_ONCE 

The RCU reader uses rcu_dereference() inside rcu_read_lock critical
sections, so the writer shall use WRITE_ONCE.  Just a cleanup, we still
rely on gcc to emit atomic writes in other places.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190325225636.11635-3-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.2
Andrea Arcangeli 2019-05-14 15:40:50 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent c3f3ce049f
commit 987717e5e0
1 changed files with 3 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ retry:
* freed task structure.
*/
if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) <= 1) {
mm->owner = NULL;
WRITE_ONCE(mm->owner, NULL);
return;
}
@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ retry:
* most likely racing with swapoff (try_to_unuse()) or /proc or
* ptrace or page migration (get_task_mm()). Mark owner as NULL.
*/
mm->owner = NULL;
WRITE_ONCE(mm->owner, NULL);
return;
assign_new_owner:
@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ assign_new_owner:
put_task_struct(c);
goto retry;
}
mm->owner = c;
WRITE_ONCE(mm->owner, c);
task_unlock(c);
put_task_struct(c);
}