From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>,
Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] smp: introduce kick_active_cpus_sync()
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 14:48:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180403134832.2cdae64uwuot6ryz@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180401111108.mudkiewzn33sifvk@yury-thinkpad>
Hi Yury,
On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 02:11:08PM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> +/*
> + * Flush I-cache if CPU is in extended quiescent state
> + */
This comment is misleading. An ISB doesn't touch the I-cache; it forces
a context synchronization event.
> + .macro isb_if_eqs
> +#ifndef CONFIG_TINY_RCU
> + bl rcu_is_watching
> + tst w0, #0xff
> + b.ne 1f
The TST+B.NE can be a CBNZ:
bl rcu_is_watching
cbnz x0, 1f
isb
1:
> + /* Pairs with aarch64_insn_patch_text for EQS CPUs. */
> + isb
> +1:
> +#endif
> + .endm
> +
> el0_sync_invalid:
> inv_entry 0, BAD_SYNC
> ENDPROC(el0_sync_invalid)
> @@ -840,8 +861,10 @@ el0_svc:
> mov wsc_nr, #__NR_syscalls
> el0_svc_naked: // compat entry point
> stp x0, xscno, [sp, #S_ORIG_X0] // save the original x0 and syscall number
> + isb_if_eqs
> enable_dbg_and_irq
> - ct_user_exit 1
> + ct_user_exit
I don't think this is safe. here we issue the ISB *before* exiting a
quiesecent state, so I think we can race with another CPU that calls
kick_all_active_cpus_sync, e.g.
CPU0 CPU1
ISB
patch_some_text()
kick_all_active_cpus_sync()
ct_user_exit
// not synchronized!
use_of_patched_text()
... and therefore the ISB has no effect, which could be disasterous.
I believe we need the ISB *after* we transition into a non-quiescent
state, so that we can't possibly miss a context synchronization event.
Thanks,
Mark.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-03 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-25 17:50 [PATCH 0/2] smp: don't kick CPUs running idle or nohz_full tasks Yury Norov
2018-03-25 17:50 ` [PATCH 1/2] rcu: declare rcu_eqs_special_set() in public header Yury Norov
2018-03-25 19:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-03-25 19:18 ` Yury Norov
2018-03-25 17:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] smp: introduce kick_active_cpus_sync() Yury Norov
2018-03-25 19:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-03-25 20:11 ` Yury Norov
2018-03-26 12:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-03-28 13:36 ` Yury Norov
2018-03-28 13:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-03-28 14:41 ` Yury Norov
2018-03-28 14:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-03-26 8:53 ` Andrea Parri
2018-03-26 18:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-28 12:59 ` Yury Norov
2018-03-27 10:21 ` Will Deacon
2018-03-28 10:58 ` Yury Norov
2018-04-01 11:11 ` Yury Norov
2018-04-01 14:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-04-03 13:48 ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2018-04-04 3:36 ` Yury Norov
2018-04-04 9:08 ` Mark Rutland
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20180403134832.2cdae64uwuot6ryz@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com \
--to=mark.rutland@arm.com \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=benh@kernel.crashing.org \
--cc=catalin.marinas@arm.com \
--cc=cl@linux.com \
--cc=cmetcalf@mellanox.com \
--cc=iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com \
--cc=kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
--cc=linux@armlinux.org.uk \
--cc=linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org \
--cc=mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com \
--cc=mpe@ellerman.id.au \
--cc=paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
--cc=paulus@samba.org \
--cc=penberg@kernel.org \
--cc=rientjes@google.com \
--cc=rostedt@goodmis.org \
--cc=will.deacon@arm.com \
--cc=ynorov@caviumnetworks.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).