1. 07 2月, 2018 5 次提交
  2. 06 2月, 2018 4 次提交
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      membarrier/x86: Provide core serializing command · 10bcc80e
      Mathieu Desnoyers 提交于
      There are two places where core serialization is needed by membarrier:
      
      1) When returning from the membarrier IPI,
      2) After scheduler updates curr to a thread with a different mm, before
         going back to user-space, since the curr->mm is used by membarrier to
         check whether it needs to send an IPI to that CPU.
      
      x86-32 uses IRET as return from interrupt, and both IRET and SYSEXIT to go
      back to user-space. The IRET instruction is core serializing, but not
      SYSEXIT.
      
      x86-64 uses IRET as return from interrupt, which takes care of the IPI.
      However, it can return to user-space through either SYSRETL (compat
      code), SYSRETQ, or IRET. Given that SYSRET{L,Q} is not core serializing,
      we rely instead on write_cr3() performed by switch_mm() to provide core
      serialization after changing the current mm, and deal with the special
      case of kthread -> uthread (temporarily keeping current mm into
      active_mm) by adding a sync_core() in that specific case.
      
      Use the new sync_core_before_usermode() to guarantee this.
      Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
      Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
      Cc: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
      Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>
      Cc: David Sehr <sehr@google.com>
      Cc: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Maged Michael <maged.michael@gmail.com>
      Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
      Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180129202020.8515-10-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      10bcc80e
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      lockin/x86: Implement sync_core_before_usermode() · ac1ab12a
      Mathieu Desnoyers 提交于
      Ensure that a core serializing instruction is issued before returning to
      user-mode. x86 implements return to user-space through sysexit, sysrel,
      and sysretq, which are not core serializing.
      Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
      Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
      Cc: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
      Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>
      Cc: David Sehr <sehr@google.com>
      Cc: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Maged Michael <maged.michael@gmail.com>
      Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
      Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180129202020.8515-8-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      ac1ab12a
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      membarrier: Document scheduler barrier requirements · 306e0604
      Mathieu Desnoyers 提交于
      Document the membarrier requirement on having a full memory barrier in
      __schedule() after coming from user-space, before storing to rq->curr.
      It is provided by smp_mb__after_spinlock() in __schedule().
      
      Document that membarrier requires a full barrier on transition from
      kernel thread to userspace thread. We currently have an implicit barrier
      from atomic_dec_and_test() in mmdrop() that ensures this.
      
      The x86 switch_mm_irqs_off() full barrier is currently provided by many
      cpumask update operations as well as write_cr3(). Document that
      write_cr3() provides this barrier.
      Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
      Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
      Cc: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
      Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>
      Cc: David Sehr <sehr@google.com>
      Cc: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Maged Michael <maged.michael@gmail.com>
      Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
      Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180129202020.8515-4-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      306e0604
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      x86/events/intel/ds: Add PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD into PEBS_FREERUNNING_FLAGS · 11974914
      Jiri Olsa 提交于
      Stephane reported that we don't support period for enabling large PEBS
      data, which there's no reason for. Adding PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD into
      freerunning flags.
      
      Tested it with:
      
        # perf record -e cycles:P -c 100 --no-timestamp -C 0 --period
      Reported-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
      Tested-by: NKan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
      Tested-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
      Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180201083812.11359-4-jolsa@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      11974914
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