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diff --git a/libitm/method-gl.cc b/libitm/method-gl.cc
index b2e2bca..b51c802 100644
--- a/libitm/method-gl.cc
+++ b/libitm/method-gl.cc
@@ -291,12 +291,18 @@ public:
// See begin_or_restart() for why we need release memory order here.
v = gl_mg::clear_locked(v) + 1;
o_gl_mg.orec.store(v, memory_order_release);
-
- // Need to ensure privatization safety. Every other transaction must
- // have a snapshot time that is at least as high as our commit time
- // (i.e., our commit must be visible to them).
- priv_time = v;
}
+
+ // Need to ensure privatization safety. Every other transaction must have
+ // a snapshot time that is at least as high as our commit time (i.e., our
+ // commit must be visible to them). Because of proxy privatization, we
+ // must ensure that even if we are a read-only transaction. See
+ // ml_wt_dispatch::trycommit() for details: We can't get quite the same
+ // set of problems because we just use one orec and thus, for example,
+ // there cannot be concurrent writers -- but we can still get pending
+ // loads to privatized data when not ensuring privatization safety, which
+ // is problematic if the program unmaps the privatized memory.
+ priv_time = v;
return true;
}