From 306e060435d7a3aef8f6f033e43b0f581638adce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathieu Desnoyers Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:20:12 -0500 Subject: membarrier: Document scheduler barrier requirements Document the membarrier requirement on having a full memory barrier in __schedule() after coming from user-space, before storing to rq->curr. It is provided by smp_mb__after_spinlock() in __schedule(). Document that membarrier requires a full barrier on transition from kernel thread to userspace thread. We currently have an implicit barrier from atomic_dec_and_test() in mmdrop() that ensures this. The x86 switch_mm_irqs_off() full barrier is currently provided by many cpumask update operations as well as write_cr3(). Document that write_cr3() provides this barrier. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Andrea Parri Cc: Andrew Hunter Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: Dave Watson Cc: David Sehr Cc: Greg Hackmann Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Maged Michael Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Russell King Cc: Will Deacon Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180129202020.8515-4-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/sched/mm.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/sched') 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); } -- cgit v1.2.3