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authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>2020-10-20 09:47:14 -0400
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2020-10-29 11:00:31 +0100
commit618758ed3a4f7d790414d020b362111748ebbf9f (patch)
tree9357b04f04a5ef25a162bed531eedce691339280 /kernel/kthread.c
parent5bc78502322a5e4eef3f1b2a2813751dc6434143 (diff)
sched: membarrier: cover kthread_use_mm (v4)
Add comments and memory barrier to kthread_use_mm and kthread_unuse_mm to allow the effect of membarrier(2) to apply to kthreads accessing user-space memory as well. Given that no prior kthread use this guarantee and that it only affects kthreads, adding this guarantee does not affect user-space ABI. Refine the check in membarrier_global_expedited to exclude runqueues running the idle thread rather than all kthreads from the IPI cpumask. Now that membarrier_global_expedited can IPI kthreads, the scheduler also needs to update the runqueue's membarrier_state when entering lazy TLB state. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201020134715.13909-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kthread.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kthread.c21
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index e29773c82b70..481428fe5f22 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -1248,6 +1248,7 @@ void kthread_use_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
tsk->active_mm = mm;
}
tsk->mm = mm;
+ membarrier_update_current_mm(mm);
switch_mm_irqs_off(active_mm, mm, tsk);
local_irq_enable();
task_unlock(tsk);
@@ -1255,8 +1256,19 @@ void kthread_use_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
finish_arch_post_lock_switch();
#endif
+ /*
+ * When a kthread starts operating on an address space, the loop
+ * in membarrier_{private,global}_expedited() may not observe
+ * that tsk->mm, and not issue an IPI. Membarrier requires a
+ * memory barrier after storing to tsk->mm, before accessing
+ * user-space memory. A full memory barrier for membarrier
+ * {PRIVATE,GLOBAL}_EXPEDITED is implicitly provided by
+ * mmdrop(), or explicitly with smp_mb().
+ */
if (active_mm != mm)
mmdrop(active_mm);
+ else
+ smp_mb();
to_kthread(tsk)->oldfs = force_uaccess_begin();
}
@@ -1276,9 +1288,18 @@ void kthread_unuse_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
force_uaccess_end(to_kthread(tsk)->oldfs);
task_lock(tsk);
+ /*
+ * When a kthread stops operating on an address space, the loop
+ * in membarrier_{private,global}_expedited() may not observe
+ * that tsk->mm, and not issue an IPI. Membarrier requires a
+ * memory barrier after accessing user-space memory, before
+ * clearing tsk->mm.
+ */
+ smp_mb__after_spinlock();
sync_mm_rss(mm);
local_irq_disable();
tsk->mm = NULL;
+ membarrier_update_current_mm(NULL);
/* active_mm is still 'mm' */
enter_lazy_tlb(mm, tsk);
local_irq_enable();