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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2016-01-12 12:47:40 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-01-31 11:23:31 -0800 |
| commit | c1a631b482a7b3cc5a78daa8f5babf28e67d4dc6 (patch) | |
| tree | 87762a6ee012ea4300503af007cbf44ad9b74a64 /arch | |
| parent | ae535caf02c7e2e7feec62f4e07ac1f48ad5b336 (diff) | |
x86/mm: Improve switch_mm() barrier comments
commit 4eaffdd5a5fe6ff9f95e1ab4de1ac904d5e0fa8b upstream.
My previous comments were still a bit confusing and there was a
typo. Fix it up.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 71b3c126e611 ("x86/mm: Add barriers and document switch_mm()-vs-flush synchronization")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a0b43cdcdd241c5faaaecfbcc91a155ddedc9a1.1452631609.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 15 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h index ca21dfafd424..73e38f14ddeb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h @@ -120,14 +120,16 @@ static inline void switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next, * be sent, and CPU 0's TLB will contain a stale entry.) * * The bad outcome can occur if either CPU's load is - * reordered before that CPU's store, so both CPUs much + * reordered before that CPU's store, so both CPUs must * execute full barriers to prevent this from happening. * * Thus, switch_mm needs a full barrier between the * store to mm_cpumask and any operation that could load - * from next->pgd. This barrier synchronizes with - * remote TLB flushers. Fortunately, load_cr3 is - * serializing and thus acts as a full barrier. + * from next->pgd. TLB fills are special and can happen + * due to instruction fetches or for no reason at all, + * and neither LOCK nor MFENCE orders them. + * Fortunately, load_cr3() is serializing and gives the + * ordering guarantee we need. * */ load_cr3(next->pgd); @@ -174,9 +176,8 @@ static inline void switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next, * tlb flush IPI delivery. We must reload CR3 * to make sure to use no freed page tables. * - * As above, this is a barrier that forces - * TLB repopulation to be ordered after the - * store to mm_cpumask. + * As above, load_cr3() is serializing and orders TLB + * fills with respect to the mm_cpumask write. */ load_cr3(next->pgd); trace_tlb_flush(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, TLB_FLUSH_ALL); |