From e37c698270633327245beb0fbd8699db8a4b65b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Borntraeger Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 21:41:33 +0100 Subject: mm: replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE or barriers ACCESS_ONCE does not work reliably on non-scalar types. For example gcc 4.6 and 4.7 might remove the volatile tag for such accesses during the SRA (scalar replacement of aggregates) step (https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145) Let's change the code to access the page table elements with READ_ONCE that does implicit scalar accesses for the gup code. mm_find_pmd is tricky, because m68k and sparc(32bit) define pmd_t as array of longs. This code requires just that the pmd_present and pmd_trans_huge check are done on the same value, so a barrier is sufficent. A similar case is in handle_pte_fault. On ppc44x the word size is 32 bit, but a pte is 64 bit. A barrier is ok as well. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney --- mm/rmap.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/rmap.c') diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index 19886fb2f13a..1e542744e131 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -581,7 +581,8 @@ pmd_t *mm_find_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address) * without holding anon_vma lock for write. So when looking for a * genuine pmde (in which to find pte), test present and !THP together. */ - pmde = ACCESS_ONCE(*pmd); + pmde = *pmd; + barrier(); if (!pmd_present(pmde) || pmd_trans_huge(pmde)) pmd = NULL; out: -- cgit v1.2.3