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author | Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> | 2020-10-20 15:47:13 +0200 |
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committer | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2020-10-29 11:00:30 +0100 |
commit | 5bc78502322a5e4eef3f1b2a2813751dc6434143 (patch) | |
tree | 2c07a22fd6161ab1504634bd4785b0d0e52531dd /kernel/exit.c | |
parent | sched/fair: Exclude the current CPU from find_new_ilb() (diff) | |
download | linux-5bc78502322a5e4eef3f1b2a2813751dc6434143.tar.xz linux-5bc78502322a5e4eef3f1b2a2813751dc6434143.zip |
sched: fix exit_mm vs membarrier (v4)
exit_mm should issue memory barriers after user-space memory accesses,
before clearing current->mm, to order user-space memory accesses
performed prior to exit_mm before clearing tsk->mm, which has the
effect of skipping the membarrier private expedited IPIs.
exit_mm should also update the runqueue's membarrier_state so
membarrier global expedited IPIs are not sent when they are not
needed.
The membarrier system call can be issued concurrently with do_exit
if we have thread groups created with CLONE_VM but not CLONE_THREAD.
Here is the scenario I have in mind:
Two thread groups are created, A and B. Thread group B is created by
issuing clone from group A with flag CLONE_VM set, but not CLONE_THREAD.
Let's assume we have a single thread within each thread group (Thread A
and Thread B).
The AFAIU we can have:
Userspace variables:
int x = 0, y = 0;
CPU 0 CPU 1
Thread A Thread B
(in thread group A) (in thread group B)
x = 1
barrier()
y = 1
exit()
exit_mm()
current->mm = NULL;
r1 = load y
membarrier()
skips CPU 0 (no IPI) because its current mm is NULL
r2 = load x
BUG_ON(r1 == 1 && r2 == 0)
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201020134715.13909-2-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 87a2d515de0d..a3dd6b36f99a 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -475,10 +475,24 @@ static void exit_mm(void) BUG_ON(mm != current->active_mm); /* more a memory barrier than a real lock */ task_lock(current); + /* + * When a thread stops operating on an address space, the loop + * in membarrier_private_expedited() may not observe that + * tsk->mm, and the loop in membarrier_global_expedited() may + * not observe a MEMBARRIER_STATE_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED + * rq->membarrier_state, so those would not issue an IPI. + * Membarrier requires a memory barrier after accessing + * user-space memory, before clearing tsk->mm or the + * rq->membarrier_state. + */ + smp_mb__after_spinlock(); + local_irq_disable(); current->mm = NULL; - mmap_read_unlock(mm); + membarrier_update_current_mm(NULL); enter_lazy_tlb(mm, current); + local_irq_enable(); task_unlock(current); + mmap_read_unlock(mm); mm_update_next_owner(mm); mmput(mm); if (test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE)) |