Introduce pageset_update() to perform a safe transision from one set of
pcp->{batch,high} to a new set using memory barriers.
This ensures that batch is always set to a safe value (1) prior to
updating high, and ensure that high is fully updated before setting the
real value of batch. It avoids ->batch ever rising above ->high.
Suggested by Gilad Ben-Yossef in these threads:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/9/23https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/10/49
Also reproduces his proposed comment.
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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