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| author | Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> | 2018-01-29 15:20:18 -0500 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-02-05 21:35:11 +0100 |
| commit | 10bcc80e9dbced128e3b4aa86e4737e5486a45d0 (patch) | |
| tree | f46e880c3f84d7c073f73de46c91e879404c5b44 /arch/x86/Kconfig | |
| parent | 70216e18e519a54a2f13569e8caff99a092a92d6 (diff) | |
membarrier/x86: Provide core serializing command
There are two places where core serialization is needed by membarrier:
1) When returning from the membarrier IPI,
2) After scheduler updates curr to a thread with a different mm, before
going back to user-space, since the curr->mm is used by membarrier to
check whether it needs to send an IPI to that CPU.
x86-32 uses IRET as return from interrupt, and both IRET and SYSEXIT to go
back to user-space. The IRET instruction is core serializing, but not
SYSEXIT.
x86-64 uses IRET as return from interrupt, which takes care of the IPI.
However, it can return to user-space through either SYSRETL (compat
code), SYSRETQ, or IRET. Given that SYSRET{L,Q} is not core serializing,
we rely instead on write_cr3() performed by switch_mm() to provide core
serialization after changing the current mm, and deal with the special
case of kthread -> uthread (temporarily keeping current mm into
active_mm) by adding a sync_core() in that specific case.
Use the new sync_core_before_usermode() to guarantee this.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>
Cc: David Sehr <sehr@google.com>
Cc: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Maged Michael <maged.michael@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180129202020.8515-10-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 31030ade4690..e095bdb9afdf 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ config X86 select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL select ARCH_HAS_KCOV if X86_64 + select ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE select ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API if X86_64 select ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE if X86_64 |