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Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched/mm.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/mm.h b/include/linux/sched/mm.h index 26307cdc3969..b84e0fde1d72 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/mm.h @@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ static inline void mmgrab(struct mm_struct *mm) extern void __mmdrop(struct mm_struct *); static inline void mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm) { + /* + * The implicit full barrier implied by atomic_dec_and_test() is + * required by the membarrier system call before returning to + * user-space, after storing to rq->curr. + */ if (unlikely(atomic_dec_and_test(&mm->mm_count))) __mmdrop(mm); } |