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Subject[RFC PATCH] mm: use ACCESS_ONCE in page_cpupid_xchg_last()
By reading the code, I find the following code maybe optimized by
compiler, maybe page->flags and old_flags use the same register,
so use ACCESS_ONCE in page_cpupid_xchg_last() to fix the problem.

Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
---
mm/mmzone.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmzone.c b/mm/mmzone.c
index 5652be8..e0b698e 100644
--- a/mm/mmzone.c
+++ b/mm/mmzone.c
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ int page_cpupid_xchg_last(struct page *page, int cpupid)
int last_cpupid;

do {
- old_flags = flags = page->flags;
+ old_flags = flags = ACCESS_ONCE(page->flags);
last_cpupid = page_cpupid_last(page);

flags &= ~(LAST_CPUPID_MASK << LAST_CPUPID_PGSHIFT);
--
1.8.3.1

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