Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] scheduler: add full memory barriers upon task
 switch at runqueue lock/unlock
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
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On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 11:09 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> We can deal with the rq->cur update by holding the rq lock in each
> iteration of the for_each_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(current->mm)) loop. This
> ensures that if rq->cur is updated, we have an associated memory barrier
> issued (e.g. on x86, implied by writing to cr3 while the rq lock is held).
> 
> However, this does not deal with mm_cpumask update, and we cannot use
> the per-cpu rq lock, as it's a process-wide data structure updated with
> clear_bit/set_bit in switch_mm(). So at the very least, we would have to
> add memory barriers in switch_mm() on some architectures to deal with
> this.
> 


Doesn't set_bit imply a wmb()? If so couldn't we do:

What about:

again:
  tmp_mask = mm_cpumask(current->mm);
  smp_mb();
   rcu_read_lock(); /* ensures validity of cpu_curr(cpu) tasks */
   for_each_cpu(cpu, tmp_mask) {
     spin_lock_irq(&cpu_rq(cpu)->lock);
     ret = current->mm == cpu_curr(cpu)->mm;
     spin_unlock_irq(&cpu_rq(cpu)->lock);
     if (ret)
       smp_call_function_single(cpu, membarrier_ipi, NULL, 1);
   }
   rcu_read_unlock();
   smp_mb();
   if (tmp_mask != mm_cpumask(current->mm)) {
      /* do check for signals here */
      goto again;
   }

Would the above work?

-- Steve


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