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authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>2024-04-15 11:21:13 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2024-04-16 13:59:45 +0200
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parent0bbac3facb5d6cc0171c45c9873a2dc96bea9680 (diff)
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sched: Add missing memory barrier in switch_mm_cid
Many architectures' switch_mm() (e.g. arm64) do not have an smp_mb() which the core scheduler code has depended upon since commit: commit 223baf9d17f25 ("sched: Fix performance regression introduced by mm_cid") If switch_mm() doesn't call smp_mb(), sched_mm_cid_remote_clear() can unset the actively used cid when it fails to observe active task after it sets lazy_put. There *is* a memory barrier between storing to rq->curr and _return to userspace_ (as required by membarrier), but the rseq mm_cid has stricter requirements: the barrier needs to be issued between store to rq->curr and switch_mm_cid(), which happens earlier than: - spin_unlock(), - switch_to(). So it's fine when the architecture switch_mm() happens to have that barrier already, but less so when the architecture only provides the full barrier in switch_to() or spin_unlock(). It is a bug in the rseq switch_mm_cid() implementation. All architectures that don't have memory barriers in switch_mm(), but rather have the full barrier either in finish_lock_switch() or switch_to() have them too late for the needs of switch_mm_cid(). Introduce a new smp_mb__after_switch_mm(), defined as smp_mb() in the generic barrier.h header, and use it in switch_mm_cid() for scheduler transitions where switch_mm() is expected to provide a memory barrier. Architectures can override smp_mb__after_switch_mm() if their switch_mm() implementation provides an implicit memory barrier. Override it with a no-op on x86 which implicitly provide this memory barrier by writing to CR3. Fixes: 223baf9d17f2 ("sched: Fix performance regression introduced by mm_cid") Reported-by: levi.yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> # for arm64 Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> # for x86 Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.4.x Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240415152114.59122-2-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/sched.h20
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index d2242679239e..ae50f212775e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@
# include <asm/paravirt_api_clock.h>
#endif
+#include <asm/barrier.h>
+
#include "cpupri.h"
#include "cpudeadline.h"
@@ -3445,13 +3447,19 @@ static inline void switch_mm_cid(struct rq *rq,
* between rq->curr store and load of {prev,next}->mm->pcpu_cid[cpu].
* Provide it here.
*/
- if (!prev->mm) // from kernel
+ if (!prev->mm) { // from kernel
smp_mb();
- /*
- * user -> user transition guarantees a memory barrier through
- * switch_mm() when current->mm changes. If current->mm is
- * unchanged, no barrier is needed.
- */
+ } else { // from user
+ /*
+ * user->user transition relies on an implicit
+ * memory barrier in switch_mm() when
+ * current->mm changes. If the architecture
+ * switch_mm() does not have an implicit memory
+ * barrier, it is emitted here. If current->mm
+ * is unchanged, no barrier is needed.
+ */
+ smp_mb__after_switch_mm();
+ }
}
if (prev->mm_cid_active) {
mm_cid_snapshot_time(rq, prev->mm);