Re: [PATCH] 3/4 combine RCU with seqlock to allow mmu notifiermethods to sleep (#v9 was 1/4)

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Mar 07 2008 - 15:15:55 EST


On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> This is a replacement for the previously posted 3/4, one of the pieces
> to allow the mmu notifier methods to sleep.

Looks good. That is what we talked about last week. What guarantees now
that we see the cacheline referenced after the cacheline that
contains the pointer that was changed? hlist_for_reach does a
rcu_dereference with implied memory barrier? So its like EMM?
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