Disallow write-tearing, that would be really unfortunate. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h @@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ */ static inline void native_set_pte(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte) { - ptep->pte_high = pte.pte_high; + WRITE_ONCE(ptep->pte_high, pte.pte_high); smp_wmb(); - ptep->pte_low = pte.pte_low; + WRITE_ONCE(ptep->pte_low, pte.pte_low); } static inline void native_set_pte_atomic(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte) @@ -58,16 +58,16 @@ static inline void native_set_pud(pud_t static inline void native_pte_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep) { - ptep->pte_low = 0; + WRITE_ONCE(ptep->pte_low, 0); smp_wmb(); - ptep->pte_high = 0; + WRITE_ONCE(ptep->pte_high, 0); } static inline void native_pmd_clear(pmd_t *pmdp) { - pmdp->pmd_low = 0; + WRITE_ONCE(pmdp->pmd_low, 0); smp_wmb(); - pmdp->pmd_high = 0; + WRITE_ONCE(pmdp->pmd_high, 0); } static inline void native_pud_clear(pud_t *pudp)