From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751312AbdAREfg (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2017 23:35:36 -0500 Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]:45219 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751124AbdAREfe (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2017 23:35:34 -0500 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@kernel.org, jiangshanlai@gmail.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, dvhart@linux.intel.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, bobby.prani@gmail.com, , "Paul E. McKenney" , Chris Metcalf , Rik van Riel Subject: [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 03/18] Fix: Disable sys_membarrier when nohz_full is enabled Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:53:42 -0800 X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.2 In-Reply-To: <20170118025316.GB2042@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20170118025316.GB2042@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 17011802-0008-0000-0000-000006F235B4 X-IBM-SpamModules-Scores: X-IBM-SpamModules-Versions: BY=3.00006453; HX=3.00000240; KW=3.00000007; PH=3.00000004; SC=3.00000199; SDB=6.00809120; UDB=6.00394134; IPR=6.00586477; BA=6.00005066; NDR=6.00000001; ZLA=6.00000005; ZF=6.00000009; ZB=6.00000000; ZP=6.00000000; ZH=6.00000000; ZU=6.00000002; MB=3.00013954; XFM=3.00000011; UTC=2017-01-18 02:54:04 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 17011802-0009-0000-0000-00003F15399A Message-Id: <1484708037-2523-3-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2017-01-17_17:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=1 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1612050000 definitions=main-1701180043 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Mathieu Desnoyers Userspace applications should be allowed to expect the membarrier system call with MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED command to issue memory barriers on nohz_full CPUs, but synchronize_sched() does not take those into account. Given that we do not want unrelated processes to be able to affect real-time sensitive nohz_full CPUs, simply return ENOSYS when membarrier is invoked on a kernel with enabled nohz_full CPUs. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers CC: Josh Triplett CC: Steven Rostedt CC: [3.10+] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Lai Jiangshan Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett --- kernel/membarrier.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/membarrier.c b/kernel/membarrier.c index 536c727a56e9..9f9284f37f8d 100644 --- a/kernel/membarrier.c +++ b/kernel/membarrier.c @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ #include #include +#include /* * Bitmask made from a "or" of all commands within enum membarrier_cmd, @@ -51,6 +52,9 @@ */ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(membarrier, int, cmd, int, flags) { + /* MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED is not compatible with nohz_full. */ + if (tick_nohz_full_enabled()) + return -ENOSYS; if (unlikely(flags)) return -EINVAL; switch (cmd) { -- 2.5.2