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| author | Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com> | 2020-09-23 16:36:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2020-09-25 14:23:27 +0200 |
| commit | 2a36ab717e8fe678d98f81c14a0b124712719840 (patch) | |
| tree | a4956fc970342eb2853b9e739009058504290676 /include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h | |
| parent | 233e7aca4c8a2c764f556bba9644c36154017e7f (diff) | |
rseq/membarrier: Add MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_RSEQ
This patchset is based on Google-internal RSEQ work done by Paul
Turner and Andrew Hunter.
When working with per-CPU RSEQ-based memory allocations, it is
sometimes important to make sure that a global memory location is no
longer accessed from RSEQ critical sections. For example, there can be
two per-CPU lists, one is "active" and accessed per-CPU, while another
one is inactive and worked on asynchronously "off CPU" (e.g. garbage
collection is performed). Then at some point the two lists are
swapped, and a fast RCU-like mechanism is required to make sure that
the previously active list is no longer accessed.
This patch introduces such a mechanism: in short, membarrier() syscall
issues an IPI to a CPU, restarting a potentially active RSEQ critical
section on the CPU.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200923233618.2572849-1-posk@google.com
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h | 26 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h b/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h index 5891d7614c8c..737605897f36 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h @@ -114,6 +114,26 @@ * If this command is not implemented by an * architecture, -EINVAL is returned. * Returns 0 on success. + * @MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_RSEQ: + * Ensure the caller thread, upon return from + * system call, that all its running thread + * siblings have any currently running rseq + * critical sections restarted if @flags + * parameter is 0; if @flags parameter is + * MEMBARRIER_CMD_FLAG_CPU, + * then this operation is performed only + * on CPU indicated by @cpu_id. If this command is + * not implemented by an architecture, -EINVAL + * is returned. A process needs to register its + * intent to use the private expedited rseq + * command prior to using it, otherwise + * this command returns -EPERM. + * @MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_RSEQ: + * Register the process intent to use + * MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_RSEQ. + * If this command is not implemented by an + * architecture, -EINVAL is returned. + * Returns 0 on success. * @MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED: * Alias to MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL. Provided for * header backward compatibility. @@ -131,9 +151,15 @@ enum membarrier_cmd { MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED = (1 << 4), MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE = (1 << 5), MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE = (1 << 6), + MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_RSEQ = (1 << 7), + MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_RSEQ = (1 << 8), /* Alias for header backward compatibility. */ MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED = MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL, }; +enum membarrier_cmd_flag { + MEMBARRIER_CMD_FLAG_CPU = (1 << 0), +}; + #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_MEMBARRIER_H */ |