membarrier: Provide core serializing command, *_SYNC_CORE

Provide core serializing membarrier command to support memory reclaim
by JIT.

Each architecture needs to explicitly opt into that support by
documenting in their architecture code how they provide the core
serializing instructions required when returning from the membarrier
IPI, and after the scheduler has updated the curr->mm pointer (before
going back to user-space). They should then select
ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE to enable support for that command on
their architecture.

Architectures selecting this feature need to either document that
they issue core serializing instructions when returning to user-space,
or implement their architecture-specific sync_core_before_usermode().

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[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: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Maged Michael <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[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]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h b/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h
index d252506e1b5e..5891d7614c8c 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
  *                          to and return from the system call
  *                          (non-running threads are de facto in such a
  *                          state). This only covers threads from the
- *                          same processes as the caller thread. This
+ *                          same process as the caller thread. This
  *                          command returns 0 on success. The
  *                          "expedited" commands complete faster than
  *                          the non-expedited ones, they never block,
@@ -86,6 +86,34 @@
  *                          Register the process intent to use
  *                          MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED. Always
  *                          returns 0.
+ * @MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE:
+ *                          In addition to provide memory ordering
+ *                          guarantees described in
+ *                          MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED, ensure
+ *                          the caller thread, upon return from system
+ *                          call, that all its running threads siblings
+ *                          have executed a core serializing
+ *                          instruction. (architectures are required to
+ *                          guarantee that non-running threads issue
+ *                          core serializing instructions before they
+ *                          resume user-space execution). This only
+ *                          covers threads from the same process as the
+ *                          caller thread. This command returns 0 on
+ *                          success. The "expedited" commands complete
+ *                          faster than the non-expedited ones, they
+ *                          never block, but have the downside of
+ *                          causing extra overhead. If this command is
+ *                          not implemented by an architecture, -EINVAL
+ *                          is returned. A process needs to register its
+ *                          intent to use the private expedited sync
+ *                          core command prior to using it, otherwise
+ *                          this command returns -EPERM.
+ * @MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE:
+ *                          Register the process intent to use
+ *                          MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE.
+ *                          If this command is not implemented by an
+ *                          architecture, -EINVAL is returned.
+ *                          Returns 0 on success.
  * @MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED:
  *                          Alias to MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL. Provided for
  *                          header backward compatibility.
@@ -101,6 +129,8 @@ enum membarrier_cmd {
 	MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED		= (1 << 2),
 	MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED			= (1 << 3),
 	MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED		= (1 << 4),
+	MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE		= (1 << 5),
+	MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE	= (1 << 6),
 
 	/* Alias for header backward compatibility. */
 	MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED			= MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL,