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[109.80.100.85]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id s184-v6sm8994794wmf.5.2018.07.02.08.12.15 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 02 Jul 2018 08:12:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrea Parri To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Will Deacon , Alan Stern , Boqun Feng , Nicholas Piggin , David Howells , Jade Alglave , Luc Maranget , "Paul E . McKenney" , Akira Yokosawa , Daniel Lustig , Jonathan Corbet , Randy Dunlap , Matthew Wilcox , Andrea Parri Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] locking: Clarify requirements for smp_mb__after_spinlock() Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 17:11:55 +0200 Message-Id: <1530544315-14614-1-git-send-email-andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1530182480-13205-3-git-send-email-andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> References: <1530182480-13205-3-git-send-email-andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org There are 11 interpretations of the requirements described in the header comment for smp_mb__after_spinlock(): one for each LKMM maintainer, and one currently encoded in the Cat file. Stick to the latter (until a more satisfactory solution is available). This also reworks some snippets related to the barrier to illustrate the requirements and to link them to the idioms which are relied upon at its call sites. Suggested-by: Boqun Feng Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Will Deacon Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" --- Changes since v1: - reworked the snippets (Peter Zijlstra) - style fixes (Alan Stern and Matthew Wilcox) - added Boqun's Suggested-by: tag include/linux/spinlock.h | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- kernel/sched/core.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++------------------- 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/spinlock.h b/include/linux/spinlock.h index 1e8a464358384..0b46efca659f9 100644 --- a/include/linux/spinlock.h +++ b/include/linux/spinlock.h @@ -114,29 +114,46 @@ do { \ #endif /*arch_spin_is_contended*/ /* - * This barrier must provide two things: + * smp_mb__after_spinlock() provides the equivalent of a full memory barrier + * between program-order earlier lock acquisitions and program-order later + * memory accesses. * - * - it must guarantee a STORE before the spin_lock() is ordered against a - * LOAD after it, see the comments at its two usage sites. + * This guarantees that the following two properties hold: * - * - it must ensure the critical section is RCsc. + * 1) Given the snippet: * - * The latter is important for cases where we observe values written by other - * CPUs in spin-loops, without barriers, while being subject to scheduling. + * { X = 0; Y = 0; } * - * CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 + * CPU0 CPU1 * - * for (;;) { - * if (READ_ONCE(X)) - * break; - * } - * X=1 - * - * - * r = X; + * WRITE_ONCE(X, 1); WRITE_ONCE(Y, 1); + * spin_lock(S); smp_mb(); + * smp_mb__after_spinlock(); r1 = READ_ONCE(X); + * r0 = READ_ONCE(Y); + * spin_unlock(S); * - * without transitivity it could be that CPU1 observes X!=0 breaks the loop, - * we get migrated and CPU2 sees X==0. + * it is forbidden that CPU0 does not observe CPU1's store to Y (r0 = 0) + * and CPU1 does not observe CPU0's store to X (r1 = 0); see the comments + * preceding the call to smp_mb__after_spinlock() in __schedule() and in + * try_to_wake_up(). + * + * 2) Given the snippet: + * + * { X = 0; Y = 0; } + * + * CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 + * + * spin_lock(S); spin_lock(S); r1 = READ_ONCE(Y); + * WRITE_ONCE(X, 1); smp_mb__after_spinlock(); smp_rmb(); + * spin_unlock(S); r0 = READ_ONCE(X); r2 = READ_ONCE(X); + * WRITE_ONCE(Y, 1); + * spin_unlock(S); + * + * it is forbidden that CPU0's critical section executes before CPU1's + * critical section (r0 = 1), CPU2 observes CPU1's store to Y (r1 = 1) + * and CPU2 does not observe CPU0's store to X (r2 = 0); see the comments + * preceding the calls to smp_rmb() in try_to_wake_up() for similar + * snippets but "projected" onto two CPUs. * * Since most load-store architectures implement ACQUIRE with an smp_mb() after * the LL/SC loop, they need no further barriers. Similarly all our TSO diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index da8f12119a127..ec9ef0aec71ac 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -1999,21 +1999,20 @@ try_to_wake_up(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int state, int wake_flags) * be possible to, falsely, observe p->on_rq == 0 and get stuck * in smp_cond_load_acquire() below. * - * sched_ttwu_pending() try_to_wake_up() - * [S] p->on_rq = 1; [L] P->state - * UNLOCK rq->lock -----. - * \ - * +--- RMB - * schedule() / - * LOCK rq->lock -----' - * UNLOCK rq->lock + * sched_ttwu_pending() try_to_wake_up() + * STORE p->on_rq = 1 LOAD p->state + * UNLOCK rq->lock + * + * __schedule() (switch to task 'p') + * LOCK rq->lock smp_rmb(); + * smp_mb__after_spinlock(); + * UNLOCK rq->lock * * [task p] - * [S] p->state = UNINTERRUPTIBLE [L] p->on_rq + * STORE p->state = UNINTERRUPTIBLE LOAD p->on_rq * - * Pairs with the UNLOCK+LOCK on rq->lock from the - * last wakeup of our task and the schedule that got our task - * current. + * Pairs with the LOCK+smp_mb__after_spinlock() on rq->lock in + * __schedule(). See the comment for smp_mb__after_spinlock(). */ smp_rmb(); if (p->on_rq && ttwu_remote(p, wake_flags)) @@ -2027,15 +2026,17 @@ try_to_wake_up(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int state, int wake_flags) * One must be running (->on_cpu == 1) in order to remove oneself * from the runqueue. * - * [S] ->on_cpu = 1; [L] ->on_rq - * UNLOCK rq->lock - * RMB - * LOCK rq->lock - * [S] ->on_rq = 0; [L] ->on_cpu + * __schedule() (switch to task 'p') try_to_wake_up() + * STORE p->on_cpu = 1 LOAD p->on_rq + * UNLOCK rq->lock + * + * __schedule() (put 'p' to sleep) + * LOCK rq->lock smp_rmb(); + * smp_mb__after_spinlock(); + * STORE p->on_rq = 0 LOAD p->on_cpu * - * Pairs with the full barrier implied in the UNLOCK+LOCK on rq->lock - * from the consecutive calls to schedule(); the first switching to our - * task, the second putting it to sleep. + * Pairs with the LOCK+smp_mb__after_spinlock() on rq->lock in + * __schedule(). See the comment for smp_mb__after_spinlock(). */ smp_rmb(); -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html