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    kref: Remove the memory barriers · 3c8ed889
    Peter Zijlstra 提交于
    Commit 1b0b3b99 ("kref: fix CPU ordering with respect to krefs")
    wrongly adds memory barriers to kref.
    
    It states:
    
      some atomic operations are only atomic, not ordered. Thus a CPU is allowed
      to reorder memory references to an object to before the reference is
      obtained. This fixes it.
    
    While true, it fails to show why this is a problem. I say it is not a
    problem because if there is a race with kref_put() such that we could
    end up referencing a free'd object without this memory barrier, we
    would still have that race with the memory barrier.
    
    The kref_put() in question could complete (and free the object) before
    the atomic_inc() and we'd still be up shit creek.
    
    The kref_init() case is even worse, if your object is published at this
    time you're so wrong the memory barrier won't make a difference what
    so ever. If its not published, the act of publishing should include
    the needed barriers/locks to make sure all writes prior to the act of
    publishing are complete such that others will only observe a complete
    object.
    
    Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
    Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
    3c8ed889
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