Add comments and memory barrier to kthread_use_mm and kthread_unuse_mm
to allow the effect of membarrier(2) to apply to kthreads accessing
user-space memory as well.
Given that no prior kthread use this guarantee and that it only affects
kthreads, adding this guarantee does not affect user-space ABI.
Refine the check in membarrier_global_expedited to exclude runqueues
running the idle thread rather than all kthreads from the IPI cpumask.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
---
Changes since v1:
- Add WARN_ON_ONCE(current->mm) in play_idle_precise (PeterZ),
- Use smp_mb__after_spinlock rather than smp_mb after task_lock.
---
kernel/kthread.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
kernel/sched/idle.c | 1 +
kernel/sched/membarrier.c | 8 ++------
3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 3edaa380dc7b..77aaaa7bc8d9 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -1255,8 +1255,19 @@ void kthread_use_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
finish_arch_post_lock_switch();
#endif
+ /*
+ * When a kthread starts operating on an address space, the loop
+ * in membarrier_{private,global}_expedited() may not observe
+ * that tsk->mm, and not issue an IPI. Membarrier requires a
+ * memory barrier after storing to tsk->mm, before accessing
+ * user-space memory. A full memory barrier for membarrier
+ * {PRIVATE,GLOBAL}_EXPEDITED is implicitly provided by
+ * mmdrop(), or explicitly with smp_mb().
+ */
if (active_mm != mm)
mmdrop(active_mm);
+ else
+ smp_mb();
to_kthread(tsk)->oldfs = force_uaccess_begin();
}
@@ -1276,6 +1287,14 @@ void kthread_unuse_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
force_uaccess_end(to_kthread(tsk)->oldfs);
task_lock(tsk);
+ /*
+ * When a kthread stops operating on an address space, the loop
+ * in membarrier_{private,global}_expedited() may not observe
+ * that tsk->mm, and not issue an IPI. Membarrier requires a
+ * memory barrier after accessing user-space memory, before
+ * clearing tsk->mm.
+ */
+ smp_mb__after_spinlock();
sync_mm_rss(mm);
local_irq_disable();
tsk->mm = NULL;
diff --git a/kernel/sched/idle.c b/kernel/sched/idle.c
index 6bf34986f45c..3443ee8335d0 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/idle.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/idle.c
@@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ void play_idle_precise(u64 duration_ns, u64 latency_ns)
WARN_ON_ONCE(!(current->flags & PF_KTHREAD));
WARN_ON_ONCE(!(current->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITY));
WARN_ON_ONCE(!duration_ns);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(current->mm);
rcu_sleep_check();
preempt_disable();
diff --git a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
index 168479a7d61b..8a294483074d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
@@ -100,13 +100,9 @@ static int membarrier_global_expedited(void)
MEMBARRIER_STATE_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED))
continue;
- /*
- * Skip the CPU if it runs a kernel thread. The scheduler
- * leaves the prior task mm in place as an optimization when
- * scheduling a kthread.
- */
+ /* Skip the CPU if it runs the idle thread. */
p = rcu_dereference(cpu_rq(cpu)->curr);
- if (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
+ if (is_idle_task(p))
continue;
__cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, tmpmask);
--
2.11.0
