Hi Peter, Thanks for taking a look. On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 10:19:44AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:49:41AM -0500, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote: > > > Also replace rcu_assign_pointer call on rq->sd with WRITE_ONCE. This > > should be sufficient for the rq->sd initialization. > > > @@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ cpu_attach_domain(struct sched_domain *sd, struct root_domain *rd, int cpu) > > > > rq_attach_root(rq, rd); > > tmp = rq->sd; > > - rcu_assign_pointer(rq->sd, sd); > > + WRITE_ONCE(rq->sd, sd); > > dirty_sched_domain_sysctl(cpu); > > destroy_sched_domains(tmp); > > Where did the RELEASE barrier go? > > That was a publish operation, now it is not. Funny thing is, initially I had written this patch with smp_store_release() instead of WRITE_ONCE, but checkpatch complaints with that since it needs a comment on top of it, and I wasn't sure if RELEASE barrier was the intent of using rcu_assign_pointer (all the more reason to replace it with something more explicit). I will replace it with the following and resubmit it then: /* Release barrier */ smp_store_release(&rq->sd, sd); Or do we want to just drop the "Release barrier" comment and live with the checkpatch warning? (my same response applies to patch 5/5). thanks, - Joel
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