powerpc, membarrier: Skip memory barrier in switch_mm()

Allow PowerPC to skip the full memory barrier in switch_mm(), and
only issue the barrier when scheduling into a task belonging to a
process that has registered to use expedited private.

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_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED 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_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED flag.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Parri <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Avi Kivity <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Boqun Feng <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Watson <[email protected]>
Cc: David Sehr <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Hackmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Maged Michael <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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@@ -8944,6 +8944,7 @@ L:	[email protected]
 S:	Supported
 F:	kernel/sched/membarrier.c
 F:	include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h
+F:	arch/powerpc/include/asm/membarrier.h
 
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 L:	[email protected]

arch/powerpc/Kconfig

@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ config PPC
 	select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
 	select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
 	select ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API                if PPC64
+	select ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
 	select ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME		if VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
 	select ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
 	select ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST		if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST

arch/powerpc/include/asm/membarrier.h

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_MEMBARRIER_H
+#define _ASM_POWERPC_MEMBARRIER_H
+
+static inline void membarrier_arch_switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev,
+					     struct mm_struct *next,
+					     struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Only need the full barrier when switching between processes.
+	 * Barrier when switching from kernel to userspace is not
+	 * required here, given that it is implied by mmdrop(). Barrier
+	 * when switching from userspace to kernel is not needed after
+	 * store to rq->curr.
+	 */
+	if (likely(!(atomic_read(&next->membarrier_state) &
+		     MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED) || !prev))
+		return;
+
+	/*
+	 * The membarrier system call requires a full memory barrier
+	 * after storing to rq->curr, before going back to user-space.
+	 */
+	smp_mb();
+}
+
+#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_MEMBARRIER_H */

arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context.c

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
+#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
 
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
 
@@ -58,6 +59,10 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
 		 *
 		 * On the read side the barrier is in pte_xchg(), which orders
 		 * the store to the PTE vs the load of mm_cpumask.
+		 *
+		 * This full barrier is needed by membarrier when switching
+		 * between processes after store to rq->curr, before user-space
+		 * memory accesses.
 		 */
 		smp_mb();
 
@@ -80,6 +85,8 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
 
 	if (new_on_cpu)
 		radix_kvm_prefetch_workaround(next);
+	else
+		membarrier_arch_switch_mm(prev, next, tsk);
 
 	/*
 	 * The actual HW switching method differs between the various

include/linux/sched/mm.h

@@ -215,14 +215,25 @@ static inline void memalloc_noreclaim_restore(unsigned int flags)
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMBARRIER
 enum {
 	MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_READY	= (1U << 0),
-	MEMBARRIER_STATE_SWITCH_MM			= (1U << 1),
+	MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED		= (1U << 1),
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
+#include <asm/membarrier.h>
+#endif
+
 static inline void membarrier_execve(struct task_struct *t)
 {
 	atomic_set(&t->mm->membarrier_state, 0);
 }
 #else
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
+static inline void membarrier_arch_switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev,
+					     struct mm_struct *next,
+					     struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+}
+#endif
 static inline void membarrier_execve(struct task_struct *t)
 {
 }

init/Kconfig

@@ -1412,6 +1412,9 @@ config USERFAULTFD
 	  Enable the userfaultfd() system call that allows to intercept and
 	  handle page faults in userland.
 
+config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
+	bool
+
 config EMBEDDED
 	bool "Embedded system"
 	option allnoconfig_y

kernel/sched/core.c

@@ -2698,16 +2698,6 @@ static struct rq *finish_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev)
 	prev_state = prev->state;
 	vtime_task_switch(prev);
 	perf_event_task_sched_in(prev, current);
-	/*
-	 * The membarrier system call requires a full memory barrier
-	 * after storing to rq->curr, before going back to user-space.
-	 *
-	 * TODO: This smp_mb__after_unlock_lock can go away if PPC end
-	 * up adding a full barrier to switch_mm(), or we should figure
-	 * out if a smp_mb__after_unlock_lock is really the proper API
-	 * to use.
-	 */
-	smp_mb__after_unlock_lock();
 	finish_task(prev);
 	finish_lock_switch(rq);
 	finish_arch_post_lock_switch();

kernel/sched/membarrier.c

@@ -118,6 +118,14 @@ static void membarrier_register_private_expedited(void)
 	if (atomic_read(&mm->membarrier_state)
 			& MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_READY)
 		return;
+	atomic_or(MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED, &mm->membarrier_state);
+	if (!(atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 1 && get_nr_threads(p) == 1)) {
+		/*
+		 * Ensure all future scheduler executions will observe the
+		 * new thread flag state for this process.
+		 */
+		synchronize_sched();
+	}
 	atomic_or(MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_READY,
 			&mm->membarrier_state);
 }