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| author | Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com> | 2020-09-23 16:36:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2020-09-25 14:23:27 +0200 |
| commit | 2a36ab717e8fe678d98f81c14a0b124712719840 (patch) | |
| tree | a4956fc970342eb2853b9e739009058504290676 /include/linux/syscalls.h | |
| parent | 233e7aca4c8a2c764f556bba9644c36154017e7f (diff) | |
rseq/membarrier: Add MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_RSEQ
This patchset is based on Google-internal RSEQ work done by Paul
Turner and Andrew Hunter.
When working with per-CPU RSEQ-based memory allocations, it is
sometimes important to make sure that a global memory location is no
longer accessed from RSEQ critical sections. For example, there can be
two per-CPU lists, one is "active" and accessed per-CPU, while another
one is inactive and worked on asynchronously "off CPU" (e.g. garbage
collection is performed). Then at some point the two lists are
swapped, and a fast RCU-like mechanism is required to make sure that
the previously active list is no longer accessed.
This patch introduces such a mechanism: in short, membarrier() syscall
issues an IPI to a CPU, restarting a potentially active RSEQ critical
section on the CPU.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200923233618.2572849-1-posk@google.com
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/syscalls.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/syscalls.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h index 75ac7f8ae93c..06db09875aa4 100644 --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h @@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_execveat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, const char __user *const __user *argv, const char __user *const __user *envp, int flags); asmlinkage long sys_userfaultfd(int flags); -asmlinkage long sys_membarrier(int cmd, int flags); +asmlinkage long sys_membarrier(int cmd, unsigned int flags, int cpu_id); asmlinkage long sys_mlock2(unsigned long start, size_t len, int flags); asmlinkage long sys_copy_file_range(int fd_in, loff_t __user *off_in, int fd_out, loff_t __user *off_out, |