Re: [PATCH v2] sched: Use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() in move_queued_task()/task_rq_lock()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Feb 01 2019 - 03:27:02 EST


On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 04:52:40PM +0100, Andrea Parri wrote:
> move_queued_task() synchronizes with task_rq_lock() as follows:
>
> move_queued_task() task_rq_lock()
>
> [S] ->on_rq = MIGRATING [L] rq = task_rq()
> WMB (__set_task_cpu()) ACQUIRE (rq->lock);
> [S] ->cpu = new_cpu [L] ->on_rq
>
> where "[L] rq = task_rq()" is ordered before "ACQUIRE (rq->lock)" by an
> address dependency and, in turn, "ACQUIRE (rq->lock)" is ordered before
> "[L] ->on_rq" by the ACQUIRE itself.
>
> Use READ_ONCE() to load ->cpu in task_rq() (c.f., task_cpu()) to honor
> this address dependency. Also, mark the accesses to ->cpu and ->on_rq
> with READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() to comply with the LKMM.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!