membarrier: Provide expedited private command
Implement MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED with IPIs using cpumask built from all runqueues for which current thread's mm is the same as the thread calling sys_membarrier. It executes faster than the non-expedited variant (no blocking). It also works on NOHZ_FULL configurations. Scheduler-wise, it requires a memory barrier before and after context switching between processes (which have different mm). The memory barrier before context switch is already present. For the barrier after context switch: * Our TSO archs can do RELEASE without being a full barrier. Look at x86 spin_unlock() being a regular STORE for example. But for those archs, all atomics imply smp_mb and all of them have atomic ops in switch_mm() for mm_cpumask(), and on x86 the CR3 load acts as a full barrier. * From all weakly ordered machines, only ARM64 and PPC can do RELEASE, the rest does indeed do smp_mb(), so there the spin_unlock() is a full barrier and we're good. * ARM64 has a very heavy barrier in switch_to(), which suffices. * PPC just removed its barrier from switch_to(), but appears to be talking about adding something to switch_mm(). So add a smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() for now, until this is settled on the PPC side. Changes since v3: - Properly document the memory barriers provided by each architecture. Changes since v2: - Address comments from Peter Zijlstra, - Add smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() after finish_lock_switch() in finish_task_switch() to add the memory barrier we need after storing to rq->curr. This is much simpler than the previous approach relying on atomic_dec_and_test() in mmdrop(), which actually added a memory barrier in the common case of switching between userspace processes. - Return -EINVAL when MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED is used on a nohz_full kernel, rather than having the whole membarrier system call returning -ENOSYS. Indeed, CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED is compatible with nohz_full. Adapt the CMD_QUERY mask accordingly. Changes since v1: - move membarrier code under kernel/sched/ because it uses the scheduler runqueue, - only add the barrier when we switch from a kernel thread. The case where we switch from a user-space thread is already handled by the atomic_dec_and_test() in mmdrop(). - add a comment to mmdrop() documenting the requirement on the implicit memory barrier. CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> CC: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> CC: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com> CC: Maged Michael <maged.michael@gmail.com> CC: gromer@google.com CC: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com> CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> CC: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>
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* (non-running threads are de facto in such a
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* state). This covers threads from all processes
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* running on the system. This command returns 0.
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* @MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED:
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* Execute a memory barrier on each running
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* thread belonging to the same process as the current
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* thread. Upon return from system call, the
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* caller thread is ensured that all its running
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* threads siblings have passed through a state
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* where all memory accesses to user-space
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* addresses match program order between entry
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* to and return from the system call
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* (non-running threads are de facto in such a
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* state). This only covers threads from the
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* same processes as the caller thread. This
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* command returns 0. The "expedited" commands
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* complete faster than the non-expedited ones,
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* they never block, but have the downside of
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* causing extra overhead.
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*
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* Command to be passed to the membarrier system call. The commands need to
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* be a single bit each, except for MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY which is assigned to
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* the value 0.
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*/
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enum membarrier_cmd {
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MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY = 0,
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MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED = (1 << 0),
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MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY = 0,
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MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED = (1 << 0),
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/* reserved for MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED_EXPEDITED (1 << 1) */
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/* reserved for MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE (1 << 2) */
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MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED = (1 << 3),
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};
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#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_MEMBARRIER_H */
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