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locking: Introduce smp_mb__after_spinlock()
Since its inception, our understanding of ACQUIRE, esp. as applied to spinlocks, has changed somewhat. Also, I wonder if, with a simple change, we cannot make it provide more. The problem with the comment is that the STORE done by spin_lock isn't itself ordered by the ACQUIRE, and therefore a later LOAD can pass over it and cross with any prior STORE, rendering the default WMB insufficient (pointed out by Alan). Now, this is only really a problem on PowerPC and ARM64, both of which already defined smp_mb__before_spinlock() as a smp_mb(). At the same time, we can get a much stronger construct if we place that same barrier _inside_ the spin_lock(). In that case we upgrade the RCpc spinlock to an RCsc. That would make all schedule() calls fully transitive against one another. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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@@ -130,6 +130,42 @@ do { \
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#define smp_mb__before_spinlock() smp_wmb()
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#endif
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/*
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* This barrier must provide two things:
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*
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* - it must guarantee a STORE before the spin_lock() is ordered against a
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* LOAD after it, see the comments at its two usage sites.
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*
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* - it must ensure the critical section is RCsc.
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*
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* The latter is important for cases where we observe values written by other
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* CPUs in spin-loops, without barriers, while being subject to scheduling.
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*
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* CPU0 CPU1 CPU2
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*
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* for (;;) {
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* if (READ_ONCE(X))
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* break;
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* }
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* X=1
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* <sched-out>
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* <sched-in>
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* r = X;
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*
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* without transitivity it could be that CPU1 observes X!=0 breaks the loop,
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* we get migrated and CPU2 sees X==0.
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*
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* Since most load-store architectures implement ACQUIRE with an smp_mb() after
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* the LL/SC loop, they need no further barriers. Similarly all our TSO
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* architectures imply an smp_mb() for each atomic instruction and equally don't
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* need more.
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*
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* Architectures that can implement ACQUIRE better need to take care.
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*/
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#ifndef smp_mb__after_spinlock
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#define smp_mb__after_spinlock() do { } while (0)
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#endif
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/**
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* raw_spin_unlock_wait - wait until the spinlock gets unlocked
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* @lock: the spinlock in question.
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