linux_dsm_epyc7002/kernel/locking
Will Deacon 95bcade33a locking/qspinlock: Ensure node is initialised before updating prev->next
When a locker ends up queuing on the qspinlock locking slowpath, we
initialise the relevant mcs node and publish it indirectly by updating
the tail portion of the lock word using xchg_tail. If we find that there
was a pre-existing locker in the queue, we subsequently update their
->next field to point at our node so that we are notified when it's our
turn to take the lock.

This can be roughly illustrated as follows:

  /* Initialise the fields in node and encode a pointer to node in tail */
  tail = initialise_node(node);

  /*
   * Exchange tail into the lockword using an atomic read-modify-write
   * operation with release semantics
   */
  old = xchg_tail(lock, tail);

  /* If there was a pre-existing waiter ... */
  if (old & _Q_TAIL_MASK) {
	prev = decode_tail(old);
	smp_read_barrier_depends();

	/* ... then update their ->next field to point to node.
	WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, node);
  }

The conditional update of prev->next therefore relies on the address
dependency from the result of xchg_tail ensuring order against the
prior initialisation of node. However, since the release semantics of
the xchg_tail operation apply only to the write portion of the RmW,
then this ordering is not guaranteed and it is possible for the CPU
to return old before the writes to node have been published, consequently
allowing us to point prev->next to an uninitialised node.

This patch fixes the problem by making the update of prev->next a RELEASE
operation, which also removes the reliance on dependency ordering.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518528177-19169-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-02-13 14:50:14 +01:00
..
lockdep_internals.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
lockdep_proc.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
lockdep_states.h locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation 2017-08-10 12:29:03 +02:00
lockdep.c Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-01-30 10:44:56 -08:00
locktorture.c torture: Eliminate torture_runnable and perf_runnable 2017-12-11 09:18:29 -08:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mcs_spinlock.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mutex-debug.c locking/mutex: Rework mutex::owner 2016-10-25 11:31:50 +02:00
mutex-debug.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mutex.c mutex, futex: adjust kernel-doc markups to generate ReST 2017-05-16 08:43:25 -03:00
mutex.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
osq_lock.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
percpu-rwsem.c locking/percpu-rwsem: Replace waitqueue with rcuwait 2017-01-14 11:14:35 +01:00
qrwlock.c locking/qrwlock: Prevent slowpath writers getting held up by fastpath 2017-10-25 10:57:25 +02:00
qspinlock_paravirt.h locking/pvqspinlock: Implement hybrid PV queued/unfair locks 2017-11-08 10:10:04 +01:00
qspinlock_stat.h sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/clock.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:27 +01:00
qspinlock.c locking/qspinlock: Ensure node is initialised before updating prev->next 2018-02-13 14:50:14 +01:00
rtmutex_common.h futex: Avoid violating the 10th rule of futex 2018-01-14 18:49:16 +01:00
rtmutex-debug.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
rtmutex-debug.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
rtmutex.c futex: Avoid violating the 10th rule of futex 2018-01-14 18:49:16 +01:00
rtmutex.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
rwsem-spinlock.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
rwsem-xadd.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
rwsem.c Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to resolve conflicts 2017-11-07 10:32:44 +01:00
rwsem.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
semaphore.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
spinlock_debug.c locking/spinlock/debug: Remove spinlock lockup detection code 2017-02-10 09:09:49 +01:00
spinlock.c locking/core: Remove break_lock field when CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK=y 2017-12-12 11:24:01 +01:00
test-ww_mutex.c mm: treewide: remove GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag 2017-09-13 18:53:16 -07:00