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Mathieu Desnoyers authored
exit_mm should issue memory barriers after user-space memory accesses, before clearing current->mm, to order user-space memory accesses performed prior to exit_mm before clearing tsk->mm, which has the effect of skipping the membarrier private expedited IPIs. exit_mm should also update the runqueue's membarrier_state so membarrier global expedited IPIs are not sent when they are not needed. The membarrier system call can be issued concurrently with do_exit if we have thread groups created with CLONE_VM but not CLONE_THREAD. Here is the scenario I have in mind: Two thread groups are created, A and B. Thread group B is created by issuing clone from group A with flag CLONE_VM set, but not CLONE_THREAD. Let's assume we have a single thread within each thread group (Thread A and Thread B). The AFAIU we can have: Userspace variables: int x = 0, y = 0; CPU 0 CPU 1 Thread A Thread B (in thread group A) (in thread group B) x = 1 barrier() y = 1 exit() exit_mm() current->mm = NULL; r1 = load y membarrier() skips CPU 0 (no IPI) because its current mm is NULL r2 = load x BUG_ON(r1 == 1 && r2 == 0) Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201020134715.13909-2-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
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