On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 22:40 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> You are correct. Now I'm thinking that the WRITE_ONCE() is not needed,
> and just a:
>
> p->mm->numa_scan_seq = READ_ONCE(p->numa_scan_seq) + 1;
Just to confirm, is this a typo? Because there really is a numa_scan_seq
in the task_struct itself too :)
p->mm->numa_scan_seq is read in task_numa_placement() with
ACCESS_ONCE(), and so the benefit that I do see with it is that it makes
it consistent by doing the updates with ACCESS_ONCE too (for
documentation purposes).
If that's really the case:
WRITE_ONCE(p->mm->numa_scan_seq, p->mm->numa_scan_seq + 1)
should be enough for that.
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