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* [RFC PATCH] membarrier-sync-core: Document architecture support
@ 2018-02-06 17:00 Mathieu Desnoyers
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From: Mathieu Desnoyers @ 2018-02-06 17:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar
  Cc: linux-kernel, Mathieu Desnoyers, Thomas Gleixner,
	Peter Zijlstra (Intel), Andrea Parri, Andrew Hunter,
	Andy Lutomirski, Avi Kivity, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Boqun Feng,
	Dave Watson, David Sehr, Greg Hackmann, H. Peter Anvin,
	Linus Torvalds, Maged Michael, Michael Ellerman, Paul E. McKenney,
	Paul Mackerras, Russell

Ensure we gather architecture requirements about each architecture supporting
the "sync_core" membarrier command in a single file under Documentation/features.

[ This patch applies on top of tip sched/core. ]

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>
Cc: David Sehr <sehr@google.com>
Cc: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Maged Michael <maged.michael@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
---
 .../sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt    | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2c815a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+#
+# Feature name:          membarrier-sync-core
+#         Kconfig:       ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
+#         description:   arch supports core serializing membarrier
+#
+# Architecture requirements
+#
+# * arm64
+#
+# Rely on eret context synchronization when returning from IPI handler, and
+# when returning to user-space.
+#
+# * x86
+#
+# x86-32 uses IRET as return from interrupt, which takes care of the IPI.
+# However, it uses both IRET and SYSEXIT to go back to user-space. The IRET
+# instruction is core serializing, but not SYSEXIT.
+#
+# x86-64 uses IRET as return from interrupt, which takes care of the IPI.
+# However, it can return to user-space through either SYSRETL (compat code),
+# SYSRETQ, or IRET.
+#
+# Given that neither SYSRET{L,Q}, nor SYSEXIT, are core serializing, we rely
+# instead on write_cr3() performed by switch_mm() to provide core serialization
+# after changing the current mm, and deal with the special case of kthread ->
+# uthread (temporarily keeping current mm into active_mm) by issuing a
+# sync_core_before_usermode() in that specific case.
+#
+    -----------------------
+    |         arch |status|
+    -----------------------
+    |       alpha: | TODO |
+    |         arc: | TODO |
+    |         arm: | TODO |
+    |       arm64: |  ok  |
+    |    blackfin: | TODO |
+    |         c6x: | TODO |
+    |        cris: | TODO |
+    |         frv: | TODO |
+    |       h8300: | TODO |
+    |     hexagon: | TODO |
+    |        ia64: | TODO |
+    |        m32r: | TODO |
+    |        m68k: | TODO |
+    |       metag: | TODO |
+    |  microblaze: | TODO |
+    |        mips: | TODO |
+    |     mn10300: | TODO |
+    |       nios2: | TODO |
+    |    openrisc: | TODO |
+    |      parisc: | TODO |
+    |     powerpc: | TODO |
+    |        s390: | TODO |
+    |       score: | TODO |
+    |          sh: | TODO |
+    |       sparc: | TODO |
+    |        tile: | TODO |
+    |          um: | TODO |
+    |   unicore32: | TODO |
+    |         x86: |  ok  |
+    |      xtensa: | TODO |
+    -----------------------
-- 
1.9.1

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