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On 9/23/19 1:23 PM, Leonardo Bras wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-09-23 at 12:58 -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
>>
>> CPU 0                            CPU 1
>> ------                         --------------
>>                                READ(pte) (re-ordered at run time)
>>                                atomic_inc(val) (no run-time memory barrier!)
>>                            
>> pmd_clear(pte)
>> if (val)
>>     run_on_all_cpus(): IPI
>>                                local_irq_disable() (also not a mem barrier)
>>
>>                                if(pte)
>>                                   walk page tables
> 
> Let me see if I can understand,
> On most patches, it would be:
> 
> CPU 0                            CPU 1
> ------				--------------
> 				ptep = __find_linux_pte  
> 				(re-ordered at run time)
> 				atomic_inc(val) 
> pmd_clear(pte)
> smp_mb()
> if (val)
>     run_on_all_cpus(): IPI
>                                local_irq_disable() 
> 
>                                if(ptep)
>                                   pte = *ptep;
> 
> Is that what you meant?
> 
> 

Yes.

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA