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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2013-11-28 14:26:41 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-12-11 15:52:32 +0100
commitba1f14fbe70965ae0fb1655a5275a62723f65b77 (patch)
tree412534b605bf33e5e930172686dd4f31d157fc51 /arch/x86
parent8e8339a3a1069141985daaa2521ba304509ddecd (diff)
sched: Remove PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED from generic code
While hunting a preemption issue with Alexander, Ben noticed that the currently generic PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED stuff is horribly broken for load-store architectures. We currently rely on the IPI to fold TIF_NEED_RESCHED into PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED, but when this IPI lands while we already have a load for the preempt-count but before the store, the store will erase the PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED change. The current preempt-count only works on load-store archs because interrupts are assumed to be completely balanced wrt their preempt_count fiddling; the previous preempt_count load will match the preempt_count state after the interrupt and therefore nothing gets lost. This patch removes the PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED usage from generic code and pushes it into x86 arch code; the generic code goes back to relying on TIF_NEED_RESCHED. Boot tested on x86_64 and compile tested on ppc64. Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Reported-and-Tested-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131128132641.GP10022@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h
index 8729723636fd..c8b051933b1b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@
DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, __preempt_count);
/*
+ * We use the PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED bit as an inverted NEED_RESCHED such
+ * that a decrement hitting 0 means we can and should reschedule.
+ */
+#define PREEMPT_ENABLED (0 + PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED)
+
+/*
* We mask the PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED bit so as not to confuse all current users
* that think a non-zero value indicates we cannot preempt.
*/
@@ -74,6 +80,11 @@ static __always_inline void __preempt_count_sub(int val)
__this_cpu_add_4(__preempt_count, -val);
}
+/*
+ * Because we keep PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED set when we do _not_ need to reschedule
+ * a decrement which hits zero means we have no preempt_count and should
+ * reschedule.
+ */
static __always_inline bool __preempt_count_dec_and_test(void)
{
GEN_UNARY_RMWcc("decl", __preempt_count, __percpu_arg(0), "e");