[PATCH for 4.16 09/11] membarrier: x86: Provide core serializing command (v4)

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There are two places where core serialization is needed by membarrier:

1) When returning from the membarrier IPI,
2) After scheduler updates curr to a thread with a different mm, before
   going back to user-space, since the curr->mm is used by membarrier to
   check whether it needs to send an IPI to that CPU.

x86-32 uses iret as return from interrupt, and both iret and sysexit to go
back to user-space. The iret instruction is core serializing, but not
sysexit.

x86-64 uses iret as return from interrupt, which takes care of the IPI.
However, it can return to user-space through either sysretl (compat
code), sysretq, or iret. Given that sysret{l,q} is not core serializing,
we rely instead on write_cr3() performed by switch_mm() to provide core
serialization after changing the current mm, and deal with the special
case of kthread -> uthread (temporarily keeping current mm into
active_mm) by adding a sync_core() in that specific case.

Use the new sync_core_before_usermode() to guarantee this.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Andrew Hunter <ahh@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Maged Michael <maged.michael@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Dave Watson <davejwatson@xxxxxx>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
CC: David Sehr <sehr@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
CC: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
Changes since v1:
- Use the newly introduced sync_core_before_usermode(). Move all state
  handling to generic code.
- Add linux/processor.h include to include/linux/sched/mm.h.
Changes since v2:
- Fix use-after-free in membarrier_mm_sync_core_before_usermode.
Changes since v3:
- Move generic code into separate patch.
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig          | 1 +
 arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 5 +++++
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 4 ++++
 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c         | 7 ++++---
 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 0b44c8dd0e95..b5324f2e3162 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ config X86
 	select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
 	select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
 	select ARCH_HAS_KCOV			if X86_64
+	select ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
 	select ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API		if X86_64
 	select ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT
 	select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE	if X86_64
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
index a1f28a54f23a..0c89cef690cf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
@@ -554,6 +554,11 @@ restore_all:
 .Lrestore_nocheck:
 	RESTORE_REGS 4				# skip orig_eax/error_code
 .Lirq_return:
+	/*
+	 * ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE rely on iret core serialization
+	 * when returning from IPI handler and when returning from
+	 * scheduler to user-space.
+	 */
 	INTERRUPT_RETURN
 
 .section .fixup, "ax"
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
index 4f8e1d35a97c..8a32390240f1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -792,6 +792,10 @@ GLOBAL(restore_regs_and_return_to_kernel)
 	POP_EXTRA_REGS
 	POP_C_REGS
 	addq	$8, %rsp	/* skip regs->orig_ax */
+	/*
+	 * ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE rely on iret core serialization
+	 * when returning from IPI handler.
+	 */
 	INTERRUPT_RETURN
 
 ENTRY(native_iret)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index c28cd5592b0d..df4e21371c89 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -201,9 +201,10 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
 	this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.is_lazy, false);
 
 	/*
-	 * The membarrier system call requires a full memory barrier
-	 * before returning to user-space, after storing to rq->curr.
-	 * Writing to CR3 provides that full memory barrier.
+	 * The membarrier system call requires a full memory barrier and
+	 * core serialization before returning to user-space, after
+	 * storing to rq->curr. Writing to CR3 provides that full
+	 * memory barrier and core serializing instruction.
 	 */
 	if (real_prev == next) {
 		VM_WARN_ON(this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.ctxs[prev_asid].ctx_id) !=
-- 
2.11.0




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