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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index b0757660663f..eb9571815f0c 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -1134,6 +1134,13 @@ static void __mem_cgroup_commit_charge(struct mem_cgroup *mem, } pc->mem_cgroup = mem; + /* + * We access a page_cgroup asynchronously without lock_page_cgroup(). + * Especially when a page_cgroup is taken from a page, pc->mem_cgroup + * is accessed after testing USED bit. To make pc->mem_cgroup visible + * before USED bit, we need memory barrier here. + * See mem_cgroup_add_lru_list(), etc. + */ smp_wmb(); switch (ctype) { case MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_CACHE: |