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authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>2018-01-29 15:20:11 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-02-05 21:34:02 +0100
commit3ccfebedd8cf54e291c809c838d8ad5cc00f5688 (patch)
tree1366b6cb9a9b7af1fa8f4eb8fc252f897eaf1ba8 /kernel
parent667ca1ec7c9eb7ac3b80590b6597151b4c2a750b (diff)
downloadlinux-3ccfebedd8cf54e291c809c838d8ad5cc00f5688.tar.bz2
powerpc, membarrier: Skip memory barrier in switch_mm()
Allow PowerPC to skip the full memory barrier in switch_mm(), and only issue the barrier when scheduling into a task belonging to a process that has registered to use expedited private. Threads targeting the same VM but which belong to different thread groups is a tricky case. It has a few consequences: It turns out that we cannot rely on get_nr_threads(p) to count the number of threads using a VM. We can use (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 1 && get_nr_threads(p) == 1) instead to skip the synchronize_sched() for cases where the VM only has a single user, and that user only has a single thread. It also turns out that we cannot use for_each_thread() to set thread flags in all threads using a VM, as it only iterates on the thread group. Therefore, test the membarrier state variable directly rather than relying on thread flags. This means membarrier_register_private_expedited() needs to set the MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED flag, issue synchronize_sched(), and only then set MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_READY which allows private expedited membarrier commands to succeed. membarrier_arch_switch_mm() now tests for the MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED flag. 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: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Maged Michael <maged.michael@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> 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 Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180129202020.8515-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c10
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/membarrier.c8
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 3da7a2444a91..ead0c2135d47 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2698,16 +2698,6 @@ static struct rq *finish_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev)
prev_state = prev->state;
vtime_task_switch(prev);
perf_event_task_sched_in(prev, current);
- /*
- * The membarrier system call requires a full memory barrier
- * after storing to rq->curr, before going back to user-space.
- *
- * TODO: This smp_mb__after_unlock_lock can go away if PPC end
- * up adding a full barrier to switch_mm(), or we should figure
- * out if a smp_mb__after_unlock_lock is really the proper API
- * to use.
- */
- smp_mb__after_unlock_lock();
finish_task(prev);
finish_lock_switch(rq);
finish_arch_post_lock_switch();
diff --git a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
index 9bcbacba82a8..678577267a9a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
@@ -118,6 +118,14 @@ static void membarrier_register_private_expedited(void)
if (atomic_read(&mm->membarrier_state)
& MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_READY)
return;
+ atomic_or(MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED, &mm->membarrier_state);
+ if (!(atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 1 && get_nr_threads(p) == 1)) {
+ /*
+ * Ensure all future scheduler executions will observe the
+ * new thread flag state for this process.
+ */
+ synchronize_sched();
+ }
atomic_or(MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_READY,
&mm->membarrier_state);
}