> -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Mackerras [mailto:pau...@samba.org] > Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 9:59 AM > To: Bhushan Bharat-R65777 > Cc: Alexander Graf; Benjamin Herrenschmidt; kvm-...@vger.kernel.org; > kvm@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/23] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Use mmu_notifier_retry() in > kvmppc_mmu_map_page() > > On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 04:13:34AM +0000, Bhushan Bharat-R65777 wrote: > > > > > + /* used to check for invalidations in progress */ > > > + mmu_seq = kvm->mmu_notifier_seq; > > > + smp_rmb(); > > > > Should not the smp_rmb() come before reading kvm->mmu_notifier_seq. > > No, it should come after, because it is ordering the read of > kvm->mmu_notifier_seq before the read of the Linux PTE.
Ahh, ok. Thanks -Bharat > > Paul. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
