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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Remove usages of ACCESS_ONCE
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:42:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <551177F0.3070006@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427150680.2515.36.camel@j-VirtualBox>

Am 23.03.2015 um 23:44 schrieb Jason Low:
> Commit 38c5ce936a08 converted ACCESS_ONCE usage in gup_pmd_range() to
> READ_ONCE, since ACCESS_ONCE doesn't work reliably on non-scalar types.
> 
> This patch removes the rest of the usages of ACCESS_ONCE, and use
> READ_ONCE for the read accesses. This also makes things cleaner,
> instead of using separate/multiple sets of APIs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>

Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>

one remark or question:

> -	anon_mapping = (unsigned long) ACCESS_ONCE(page->mapping);
> +	anon_mapping = (unsigned long)READ_ONCE(page->mapping);

Were the white space changes intentional? IIRC checkpatch does prefer
it your way and you have changed several places - so I assume yes.
Either way, its probably fine to change that along.

Christian


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-24 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-23 22:44 [PATCH] mm: Remove usages of ACCESS_ONCE Jason Low
2015-03-24 10:30 ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-24 18:30   ` Jason Low
2015-03-25  7:51     ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-24 14:32 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-03-24 14:39 ` Rik van Riel
2015-03-24 14:42 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2015-03-24 16:58   ` Jason Low

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