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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/memcontrol: fix a data race in scan count
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> On Feb 9, 2020, at 11:28 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> I worry about the readability/maintainability of these things. A naive
> reader who comes upon this code will wonder "why the heck is it using
> READ_ONCE?". A possibly lengthy trawl through the git history will
> reveal the reason but that's rather unkind. Wouldn't a simple
>
> /* modified under lru_lock, so use READ_ONCE */
>
> improve the situation?

Sure. I just don’t remember there are many places in the existing code which put comments for READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE(). For example, kernel/locking/osq_lock.c and kernel/rcu/srcutree.c, but I suppose every subsystem could be different.
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