2 * Copyright (C) 2010-2017 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
4 * membarrier system call
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19 * Bitmask made from a "or" of all commands within enum membarrier_cmd,
20 * except MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY.
22 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
23 #define MEMBARRIER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE_BITMASK \
24 (MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE \
25 | MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE)
27 #define MEMBARRIER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE_BITMASK 0
30 #define MEMBARRIER_CMD_BITMASK \
31 (MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL | MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED \
32 | MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED \
33 | MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED \
34 | MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED \
35 | MEMBARRIER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE_BITMASK)
37 static void ipi_mb(void *info
)
39 smp_mb(); /* IPIs should be serializing but paranoid. */
42 static int membarrier_global_expedited(void)
45 bool fallback
= false;
46 cpumask_var_t tmpmask
;
48 if (num_online_cpus() == 1)
52 * Matches memory barriers around rq->curr modification in
55 smp_mb(); /* system call entry is not a mb. */
58 * Expedited membarrier commands guarantee that they won't
59 * block, hence the GFP_NOWAIT allocation flag and fallback
62 if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&tmpmask
, GFP_NOWAIT
)) {
63 /* Fallback for OOM. */
68 for_each_online_cpu(cpu
) {
69 struct task_struct
*p
;
72 * Skipping the current CPU is OK even through we can be
73 * migrated at any point. The current CPU, at the point
74 * where we read raw_smp_processor_id(), is ensured to
75 * be in program order with respect to the caller
76 * thread. Therefore, we can skip this CPU from the
79 if (cpu
== raw_smp_processor_id())
83 p
= task_rcu_dereference(&cpu_rq(cpu
)->curr
);
84 if (p
&& p
->mm
&& (atomic_read(&p
->mm
->membarrier_state
) &
85 MEMBARRIER_STATE_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED
)) {
87 __cpumask_set_cpu(cpu
, tmpmask
);
89 smp_call_function_single(cpu
, ipi_mb
, NULL
, 1);
95 smp_call_function_many(tmpmask
, ipi_mb
, NULL
, 1);
97 free_cpumask_var(tmpmask
);
102 * Memory barrier on the caller thread _after_ we finished
103 * waiting for the last IPI. Matches memory barriers around
104 * rq->curr modification in scheduler.
106 smp_mb(); /* exit from system call is not a mb */
110 static int membarrier_private_expedited(int flags
)
113 bool fallback
= false;
114 cpumask_var_t tmpmask
;
116 if (flags
& MEMBARRIER_FLAG_SYNC_CORE
) {
117 if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
))
119 if (!(atomic_read(¤t
->mm
->membarrier_state
) &
120 MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE_READY
))
123 if (!(atomic_read(¤t
->mm
->membarrier_state
) &
124 MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_READY
))
128 if (num_online_cpus() == 1)
132 * Matches memory barriers around rq->curr modification in
135 smp_mb(); /* system call entry is not a mb. */
138 * Expedited membarrier commands guarantee that they won't
139 * block, hence the GFP_NOWAIT allocation flag and fallback
142 if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&tmpmask
, GFP_NOWAIT
)) {
143 /* Fallback for OOM. */
148 for_each_online_cpu(cpu
) {
149 struct task_struct
*p
;
152 * Skipping the current CPU is OK even through we can be
153 * migrated at any point. The current CPU, at the point
154 * where we read raw_smp_processor_id(), is ensured to
155 * be in program order with respect to the caller
156 * thread. Therefore, we can skip this CPU from the
159 if (cpu
== raw_smp_processor_id())
162 p
= task_rcu_dereference(&cpu_rq(cpu
)->curr
);
163 if (p
&& p
->mm
== current
->mm
) {
165 __cpumask_set_cpu(cpu
, tmpmask
);
167 smp_call_function_single(cpu
, ipi_mb
, NULL
, 1);
173 smp_call_function_many(tmpmask
, ipi_mb
, NULL
, 1);
175 free_cpumask_var(tmpmask
);
180 * Memory barrier on the caller thread _after_ we finished
181 * waiting for the last IPI. Matches memory barriers around
182 * rq->curr modification in scheduler.
184 smp_mb(); /* exit from system call is not a mb */
189 static int membarrier_register_global_expedited(void)
191 struct task_struct
*p
= current
;
192 struct mm_struct
*mm
= p
->mm
;
194 if (atomic_read(&mm
->membarrier_state
) &
195 MEMBARRIER_STATE_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED_READY
)
197 atomic_or(MEMBARRIER_STATE_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED
, &mm
->membarrier_state
);
198 if (atomic_read(&mm
->mm_users
) == 1 && get_nr_threads(p
) == 1) {
200 * For single mm user, single threaded process, we can
201 * simply issue a memory barrier after setting
202 * MEMBARRIER_STATE_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED to guarantee that
203 * no memory access following registration is reordered
204 * before registration.
209 * For multi-mm user threads, we need to ensure all
210 * future scheduler executions will observe the new
211 * thread flag state for this mm.
215 atomic_or(MEMBARRIER_STATE_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED_READY
,
216 &mm
->membarrier_state
);
221 static int membarrier_register_private_expedited(int flags
)
223 struct task_struct
*p
= current
;
224 struct mm_struct
*mm
= p
->mm
;
225 int state
= MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_READY
;
227 if (flags
& MEMBARRIER_FLAG_SYNC_CORE
) {
228 if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
))
230 state
= MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE_READY
;
234 * We need to consider threads belonging to different thread
235 * groups, which use the same mm. (CLONE_VM but not
238 if (atomic_read(&mm
->membarrier_state
) & state
)
240 atomic_or(MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED
, &mm
->membarrier_state
);
241 if (flags
& MEMBARRIER_FLAG_SYNC_CORE
)
242 atomic_or(MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE
,
243 &mm
->membarrier_state
);
244 if (!(atomic_read(&mm
->mm_users
) == 1 && get_nr_threads(p
) == 1)) {
246 * Ensure all future scheduler executions will observe the
247 * new thread flag state for this process.
251 atomic_or(state
, &mm
->membarrier_state
);
257 * sys_membarrier - issue memory barriers on a set of threads
258 * @cmd: Takes command values defined in enum membarrier_cmd.
259 * @flags: Currently needs to be 0. For future extensions.
261 * If this system call is not implemented, -ENOSYS is returned. If the
262 * command specified does not exist, not available on the running
263 * kernel, or if the command argument is invalid, this system call
264 * returns -EINVAL. For a given command, with flags argument set to 0,
265 * this system call is guaranteed to always return the same value until
268 * All memory accesses performed in program order from each targeted thread
269 * is guaranteed to be ordered with respect to sys_membarrier(). If we use
270 * the semantic "barrier()" to represent a compiler barrier forcing memory
271 * accesses to be performed in program order across the barrier, and
272 * smp_mb() to represent explicit memory barriers forcing full memory
273 * ordering across the barrier, we have the following ordering table for
274 * each pair of barrier(), sys_membarrier() and smp_mb():
276 * The pair ordering is detailed as (O: ordered, X: not ordered):
278 * barrier() smp_mb() sys_membarrier()
281 * sys_membarrier() O O O
283 SYSCALL_DEFINE2(membarrier
, int, cmd
, int, flags
)
288 case MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY
:
290 int cmd_mask
= MEMBARRIER_CMD_BITMASK
;
292 if (tick_nohz_full_enabled())
293 cmd_mask
&= ~MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL
;
296 case MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL
:
297 /* MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL is not compatible with nohz_full. */
298 if (tick_nohz_full_enabled())
300 if (num_online_cpus() > 1)
303 case MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED
:
304 return membarrier_global_expedited();
305 case MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED
:
306 return membarrier_register_global_expedited();
307 case MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED
:
308 return membarrier_private_expedited(0);
309 case MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED
:
310 return membarrier_register_private_expedited(0);
311 case MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE
:
312 return membarrier_private_expedited(MEMBARRIER_FLAG_SYNC_CORE
);
313 case MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE
:
314 return membarrier_register_private_expedited(MEMBARRIER_FLAG_SYNC_CORE
);