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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scheduler/index.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scheduler/membarrier.rst | 39 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt index d96b778b87ed8e..7425d2b994a399 100644 --- a/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt +++ b/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt @@ -10,6 +10,22 @@ # Rely on implicit context synchronization as a result of exception return # when returning from IPI handler, and when returning to user-space. # +# * riscv +# +# riscv uses xRET as return from interrupt and to return to user-space. +# +# Given that xRET is not core serializing, we rely on FENCE.I for providing +# core serialization: +# +# - by calling sync_core_before_usermode() on return from interrupt (cf. +# ipi_sync_core()), +# +# - via switch_mm() and sync_core_before_usermode() (respectively, for +# uthread->uthread and kthread->uthread transitions) before returning +# to user-space. +# +# The serialization in switch_mm() is activated by prepare_sync_core_cmd(). +# # * x86 # # x86-32 uses IRET as return from interrupt, which takes care of the IPI. @@ -43,7 +59,7 @@ | openrisc: | TODO | | parisc: | TODO | | powerpc: | ok | - | riscv: | TODO | + | riscv: | ok | | s390: | ok | | sh: | TODO | | sparc: | TODO | diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/index.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/index.rst index 3170747226f6da..43bd8a145b7a9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/index.rst @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Scheduler completion + membarrier sched-arch sched-bwc sched-deadline diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/membarrier.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/membarrier.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000000000..2387804b1c6331 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/membarrier.rst @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +======================== +membarrier() System Call +======================== + +MEMBARRIER_CMD_{PRIVATE,GLOBAL}_EXPEDITED - Architecture requirements +===================================================================== + +Memory barriers before updating rq->curr +---------------------------------------- + +The commands MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED and MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED +require each architecture to have a full memory barrier after coming from +user-space, before updating rq->curr. This barrier is implied by the sequence +rq_lock(); smp_mb__after_spinlock() in __schedule(). The barrier matches a full +barrier in the proximity of the membarrier system call exit, cf. +membarrier_{private,global}_expedited(). + +Memory barriers after updating rq->curr +--------------------------------------- + +The commands MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED and MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED +require each architecture to have a full memory barrier after updating rq->curr, +before returning to user-space. The schemes providing this barrier on the various +architectures are as follows. + + - alpha, arc, arm, hexagon, mips rely on the full barrier implied by + spin_unlock() in finish_lock_switch(). + + - arm64 relies on the full barrier implied by switch_to(). + + - powerpc, riscv, s390, sparc, x86 rely on the full barrier implied by + switch_mm(), if mm is not NULL; they rely on the full barrier implied + by mmdrop(), otherwise. On powerpc and riscv, switch_mm() relies on + membarrier_arch_switch_mm(). + +The barrier matches a full barrier in the proximity of the membarrier system call +entry, cf. membarrier_{private,global}_expedited(). |