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authorJason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>2015-04-30 17:28:14 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-05-08 12:13:13 +0200
commit7e5a2c1729f1612618ed236249a15bf15f309325 (patch)
tree9b3bb9bf8cb6022c5a65ba16e86088fffd6f3921 /kernel/sched/fair.c
parent316c1608d15c736439d4065ed12f306db554b3da (diff)
downloadlinux-7e5a2c1729f1612618ed236249a15bf15f309325.tar.bz2
sched/numa: Document usages of mm->numa_scan_seq
The p->mm->numa_scan_seq is accessed using READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE and modified without exclusive access. It is not clear why it is accessed this way. This patch provides some documentation on that. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430440094.2475.61.camel@j-VirtualBox Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched/fair.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index d6915a038d8a..f18ddb72fe88 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1794,6 +1794,11 @@ static void task_numa_placement(struct task_struct *p)
u64 runtime, period;
spinlock_t *group_lock = NULL;
+ /*
+ * The p->mm->numa_scan_seq field gets updated without
+ * exclusive access. Use READ_ONCE() here to ensure
+ * that the field is read in a single access:
+ */
seq = READ_ONCE(p->mm->numa_scan_seq);
if (p->numa_scan_seq == seq)
return;
@@ -2107,6 +2112,14 @@ void task_numa_fault(int last_cpupid, int mem_node, int pages, int flags)
static void reset_ptenuma_scan(struct task_struct *p)
{
+ /*
+ * We only did a read acquisition of the mmap sem, so
+ * p->mm->numa_scan_seq is written to without exclusive access
+ * and the update is not guaranteed to be atomic. That's not
+ * much of an issue though, since this is just used for
+ * statistical sampling. Use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE, which are not
+ * expensive, to avoid any form of compiler optimizations:
+ */
WRITE_ONCE(p->mm->numa_scan_seq, READ_ONCE(p->mm->numa_scan_seq) + 1);
p->mm->numa_scan_offset = 0;
}