Fix: membarrier: Handle CLONE_VM + !CLONE_THREAD correctly on powerpc
Threads targeting the same VM but which belong to different thread
groups is a tricky case. It has a few consequences:
It turns out that we cannot rely on get_nr_threads(p) to count the
number of threads using a VM. We can use
(atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 1 && get_nr_threads(p) == 1)
instead to skip the synchronize_sched() for cases where the VM only has
a single user, and that user only has a single thread.
It also turns out that we cannot use for_each_thread() to set
thread flags in all threads using a VM, as it only iterates on the
thread group.
Therefore, test the membarrier state variable directly rather than
relying on thread flags. This means
membarrier_register_private_expedited() needs to set the
MEMBARRIER_STATE_SWITCH_MM flag, issue synchronize_sched(), and only
then set MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_READY which allows private
expedited membarrier commands to succeed. membarrier_arch_switch_mm()
now tests for the MEMBARRIER_STATE_SWITCH_MM flag.
Changes since v1:
- Remove membarrier thread flag on powerpc (now unused).
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
CC: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>
CC: Maged Michael <maged.michael@gmail.com>
CC: gromer@google.com
CC: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
CC: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
CC: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>
CC: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
CC: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
CC: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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