From d89e588ca4081615216cc25f2489b0281ac0bfe9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 11:37:53 +0200 Subject: locking: Introduce smp_mb__after_spinlock() Since its inception, our understanding of ACQUIRE, esp. as applied to spinlocks, has changed somewhat. Also, I wonder if, with a simple change, we cannot make it provide more. The problem with the comment is that the STORE done by spin_lock isn't itself ordered by the ACQUIRE, and therefore a later LOAD can pass over it and cross with any prior STORE, rendering the default WMB insufficient (pointed out by Alan). Now, this is only really a problem on PowerPC and ARM64, both of which already defined smp_mb__before_spinlock() as a smp_mb(). At the same time, we can get a much stronger construct if we place that same barrier _inside_ the spin_lock(). In that case we upgrade the RCpc spinlock to an RCsc. That would make all schedule() calls fully transitive against one another. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Will Deacon Cc: Alan Stern Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Paul McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/sched') diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 0869b20fba81..9fece583a1f0 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -1967,8 +1967,8 @@ try_to_wake_up(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int state, int wake_flags) * reordered with p->state check below. This pairs with mb() in * set_current_state() the waiting thread does. */ - smp_mb__before_spinlock(); raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&p->pi_lock, flags); + smp_mb__after_spinlock(); if (!(p->state & state)) goto out; @@ -3281,8 +3281,8 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt) * can't be reordered with __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) * done by the caller to avoid the race with signal_wake_up(). */ - smp_mb__before_spinlock(); rq_lock(rq, &rf); + smp_mb__after_spinlock(); /* Promote REQ to ACT */ rq->clock_update_flags <<= 1; -- cgit v1.2.3