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From: "levi.yun" <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com,
	peterz@infradead.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nd@arm.com, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: Add memory barrier for mm_cid
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 18:52:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a6bf7f4-afa2-4c7f-b923-d67d48f41954@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240305171324.GA22616@willie-the-truck>

Hi will.

> We already have a stronger barrier than smp_mb() (dsb ish) in __switch_to().
> Is that not sufficient?

IIUC, It's not sufficient with smp_mb() in __switch_to().

Because, it can be broken in sched_mm_cid_remote_clear()

CPU0  in __schedule()                       CPU1 in 
sched_mm_cid_remote_clear()
rq->curr = new_task;
<no barrier>
mm_get_cid remote_clear
    - check valid cid and use it.            Invalidate CID.
<barrier>
rq->curr (not observed).
                                                           unset the cid 
(<<BUG).


If change of rq->curr couldn't be observed in sched_mm_cid_remote_clear(),
It could unset actively used cid.
Note that __switch_to()'s smp_mb() is called AFTER switch_mm_cid().
That means before __switch_to(), there's possibility that
sched_mm_cid_remote_clear() couldn't observe new active task,
after it sets lazy_put on active cid used by new active task.

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-05 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-05 14:53 [PATCH] arm64/mm: Add memory barrier for mm_cid levi.yun
2024-03-05 17:13 ` Will Deacon
2024-03-05 18:52   ` levi.yun [this message]
2024-03-05 20:01 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2024-03-05 21:07   ` levi.yun

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