Re: linux-next: manual merge of the rcu tree with the tip tree

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 06:43:14AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Anyway, can you document whatever property you require with a comment
> in switch_mm() or wherever you're finding that property so that future
> arch changes don't break it?

We need _a_ smp_mb after rq->curr store. x86 has plenty.

> > +static void membarrier_private_expedited(void)
> > +{
> > +       int cpu;
> > +       bool fallback = false;
> > +       cpumask_var_t tmpmask;
> > +
> > +       if (num_online_cpus() == 1)
> > +               return;
> > +
> > +       /*
> > +        * Matches memory barriers around rq->curr modification in
> > +        * scheduler.
> > +        */
> > +       smp_mb();       /* system call entry is not a mb. */
> > +
> > +       /*
> > +        * Expedited membarrier commands guarantee that they won't
> > +        * block, hence the GFP_NOWAIT allocation flag and fallback
> > +        * implementation.
> > +        */
> > +       if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&tmpmask, GFP_NOWAIT)) {
> > +               /* Fallback for OOM. */
> > +               fallback = true;
> > +       }
> > +
> > +       cpus_read_lock();
> > +       for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> > +               struct task_struct *p;
> > +
> > +               /*
> > +                * Skipping the current CPU is OK even through we can be
> > +                * migrated at any point. The current CPU, at the point
> > +                * where we read raw_smp_processor_id(), is ensured to
> > +                * be in program order with respect to the caller
> > +                * thread. Therefore, we can skip this CPU from the
> > +                * iteration.
> > +                */
> > +               if (cpu == raw_smp_processor_id())
> > +                       continue;
> > +               rcu_read_lock();
> > +               p = task_rcu_dereference(&cpu_rq(cpu)->curr);
> > +               if (p && p->mm == current->mm) {
> 
> I'm a bit surprised you're iterating all CPUs instead of just CPUs in
> mm_cpumask().

Because ARM64 doesn't set any bits at all in there.