From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wg0-f43.google.com (mail-wg0-f43.google.com [74.125.82.43]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C156E6B0082 for ; Wed, 6 May 2015 13:51:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wgiu9 with SMTP id u9so19817814wgi.3 for ; Wed, 06 May 2015 10:51:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from e06smtp12.uk.ibm.com (e06smtp12.uk.ibm.com. [195.75.94.108]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bb10si1885295wib.69.2015.05.06.10.50.54 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 06 May 2015 10:50:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from /spool/local by e06smtp12.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 6 May 2015 18:50:54 +0100 Received: from b06cxnps3074.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06relay09.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.109.194]) by d06dlp02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2584E2190061 for ; Wed, 6 May 2015 18:50:33 +0100 (BST) Received: from d06av05.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av05.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.37.229]) by b06cxnps3074.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id t46Hop3s6095236 for ; Wed, 6 May 2015 17:50:51 GMT Received: from d06av05.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d06av05.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id t46HonMB027943 for ; Wed, 6 May 2015 11:50:51 -0600 From: David Hildenbrand Subject: [PATCH RFC 12/15] futex: clarify that preemption doesn't have to be disabled Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 19:50:36 +0200 Message-Id: <1430934639-2131-13-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1430934639-2131-1-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1430934639-2131-1-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, yang.shi@windriver.com, bigeasy@linutronix.de, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, borntraeger@de.ibm.com, mst@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, David.Laight@ACULAB.COM, hughd@google.com, hocko@suse.cz, ralf@linux-mips.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, airlied@linux.ie, daniel.vetter@intel.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org As arm64 and arc have no special implementations for !CONFIG_SMP, mutual exclusion doesn't seem to rely on preemption. Let's make it clear in the comments that preemption doesn't have to be disabled when accessing user space in the futex code, so we can remove preempt_disable() from pagefault_disable(). Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand --- arch/arc/include/asm/futex.h | 10 +++++----- arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/futex.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/futex.h index 4dc64dd..05b5aaf 100644 --- a/arch/arc/include/asm/futex.h +++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/futex.h @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static inline int futex_atomic_op_inuser(int encoded_op, u32 __user *uaddr) if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(int))) return -EFAULT; - pagefault_disable(); /* implies preempt_disable() */ + pagefault_disable(); switch (op) { case FUTEX_OP_SET: @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static inline int futex_atomic_op_inuser(int encoded_op, u32 __user *uaddr) ret = -ENOSYS; } - pagefault_enable(); /* subsumes preempt_enable() */ + pagefault_enable(); if (!ret) { switch (cmp) { @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ static inline int futex_atomic_op_inuser(int encoded_op, u32 __user *uaddr) return ret; } -/* Compare-xchg with preemption disabled. +/* Compare-xchg with pagefaults disabled. * Notes: * -Best-Effort: Exchg happens only if compare succeeds. * If compare fails, returns; leaving retry/looping to upper layers @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr, u32 oldval, if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(int))) return -EFAULT; - pagefault_disable(); /* implies preempt_disable() */ + pagefault_disable(); /* TBD : can use llock/scond */ __asm__ __volatile__( @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr, u32 oldval, : "r"(oldval), "r"(newval), "r"(uaddr), "ir"(-EFAULT) : "cc", "memory"); - pagefault_enable(); /* subsumes preempt_enable() */ + pagefault_enable(); *uval = val; return val; diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h index 5f750dc..74069b3 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ futex_atomic_op_inuser (int encoded_op, u32 __user *uaddr) if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(u32))) return -EFAULT; - pagefault_disable(); /* implies preempt_disable() */ + pagefault_disable(); switch (op) { case FUTEX_OP_SET: @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ futex_atomic_op_inuser (int encoded_op, u32 __user *uaddr) ret = -ENOSYS; } - pagefault_enable(); /* subsumes preempt_enable() */ + pagefault_enable(); if (!ret) { switch (cmp) { -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. 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