Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] membarrier: Provide register expedited private command

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Thu Sep 21 2017 - 11:46:43 EST


----- On Sep 21, 2017, at 11:27 AM, Paul E. McKenney paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 03:11:43PM +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> ----- On Sep 21, 2017, at 8:13 AM, Peter Zijlstra peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 06:36:47PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> >> @@ -3373,6 +3362,7 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
>> >>
>> >> /* Also unlocks the rq: */
>> >> rq = context_switch(rq, prev, next, &rf);
>> >> + membarrier_arch_sched_in(prev, next);
>> >
>> > That's wrong iirc; we just switched stacks, you cannot use @prev and
>> > @next.
>>
>> Yes, it did indeed explode spectacularly at boot in testing. RFC v3 fixes that.
>
> Good to hear that there is a useful test. ;-)

For the issue identified by PeterZ, just booting the machine was enough to
touch a task_struct after it was put, which exploded. After fixing this, I
ran through the membarrier selftests: they run fine.

Then I did a test branch for liburcu [1] which uses the private cmd with
registration. Both 'make check' and 'make regtest' run fine on Power8.

Thanks,

Mathieu

[1] https://github.com/compudj/userspace-rcu-dev/tree/test-urcu-reg-priv

>
> Thanx, Paul
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mathieu
>>
>>
>> >
>> >> } else {
>> >> rq->clock_update_flags &= ~(RQCF_ACT_SKIP|RQCF_REQ_SKIP);
>> > > rq_unlock_irq(rq, &rf);
>>
>> --
>> Mathieu Desnoyers
>> EfficiOS Inc.
>> http://www.efficios.com

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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com