Re: [RFC PATCH 4/7] x86: use exit_lazy_tlb rather than membarrier_mm_sync_core_before_usermode

Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-07-17T13:42:46Z

----- On Jul 16, 2020, at 7:26 PM, Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com wrote:
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>
> membarrier does replace barrier instructions on remote CPUs, which do
> order accesses performed by the kernel on the user address space. So
> membarrier should too I guess.
>
> Normal process context accesses like read(2) will do so because they
> don't get filtered out from IPIs, but kernel threads using the mm may
> not.

But it should not be an issue, because membarrier's ordering is only with respect
to submit and completion of io_uring requests, which are performed through
system calls from the context of user-space threads, which are called from the
right mm.

Thanks,

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.