Re: [PATCH 08/11] membarrier: Provide core serializing command (v2)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 07:04:14PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:57:30AM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > index f38c4c7e256a..041893128f51 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > @@ -2662,9 +2662,13 @@ static struct rq *finish_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev)
> >  	 * thread, mmdrop()'s implicit full barrier is required by the
> >  	 * membarrier system call, because the current active_mm can
> >  	 * become the current mm without going through switch_mm().
> > +	 * membarrier also requires a core serializing instruction
> > +	 * before going back to user-space after storing to rq->curr.
> >  	 */
> > -	if (mm)
> > +	if (mm) {
> > +		membarrier_mm_sync_core_before_usermode(mm);
> >  		mmdrop(mm);
> > +	}
> 
> *confused*, when we switch from process A to process B, context_switch()
> will not set rq->prev_mm and the above mm will be NULL and we'll not
> pass through your_function_names_are_waaay_too_long and we'll not get
> cookies.
> 
> And if there's anything more complicated going on, the comment/changelog
> are not adequate.

Aaah, its the case where we do not pass through switch_mm(), the partial
comment got to me. I only realized after reading the next patch.

> >  	if (unlikely(prev_state == TASK_DEAD)) {
> >  		if (prev->sched_class->task_dead)
> >  			prev->sched_class->task_dead(prev);
> 
>