From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753678AbcFIVXr (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2016 17:23:47 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:51654 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161152AbcFIVUq (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2016 17:20:46 -0400 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 198/206] sched/preempt: Fix preempt_count manipulations Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 14:16:47 -0700 Message-Id: <1465507015-23052-199-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1465507015-23052-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1465507015-23052-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 4.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.2.8-ckt12 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Peter Zijlstra commit 2e636d5e66c35dfcbaf617aa8fa963f6847478fe upstream. 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 Tested-by: Vikram Mulukutla Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Fixes: a787870924db ("sched, arch: Create asm/preempt.h") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160516131751.GH3205@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- 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 0bec580..af36c87 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 ¤t_thread_info()->preempt_count; } -- 2.7.4