[tip:sched/urgent] sched/preempt: Fix preempt_count manipulations

[tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra]

Commit-ID:  2e636d5e66c35dfcbaf617aa8fa963f6847478fe
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/2e636d5e66c35dfcbaf617aa8fa963f6847478fe
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
AuthorDate: Mon, 16 May 2016 15:01:11 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 17 May 2016 12:24:21 +0200

sched/preempt: Fix preempt_count manipulations

Vikram reported that his ARM64 compiler managed to 'optimize' away the
preempt_count manipulations in code like:

        preempt_enable_no_resched();
        put_user();
        preempt_disable();

Irrespective of that fact that that is horrible code that should be
fixed for many reasons, it does highlight a deficiency in the generic
preempt_count manipulators. As it is never right to combine/elide
preempt_count manipulations like this.

Therefore sprinkle some volatile in the two generic accessors to
ensure the compiler is aware of the fact that the preempt_count is
observed outside of the regular program-order view and thus cannot be
optimized away like this.

x86; the only arch not using the generic code is not affected as we
do all this in asm in order to use the segment base per-cpu stuff.

Reported-by: Vikram Mulukutla <mark...@codeaurora.org>
Tested-by: Vikram Mulukutla <mark...@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Fixes: a787870924db ("sched, arch: Create asm/preempt.h")
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160516131751.gh3...@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
---
 include/asm-generic/preempt.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/preempt.h b/include/asm-generic/preempt.h
index 5d8ffa3..c1cde35 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/preempt.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/preempt.h
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
 
 static __always_inline int preempt_count(void)
 {
-       return current_thread_info()->preempt_count;
+       return READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt_count);
 }
 
-static __always_inline int *preempt_count_ptr(void)
+static __always_inline volatile int *preempt_count_ptr(void)
 {
        return &current_thread_info()->preempt_count;
 }