On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 16:58, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 13, 2011, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> when we suspend/resume Blackfin SMP systems, we notice that the
>> freezer code runs on multiple cores. Âthis is of course what you want
>> -- freeze processes in parallel. Âhowever, the code only uses non-smp
>> based barriers which causes us problems ... our cores need software
>> support to keep caches in sync, so our smp barriers do just that. Âbut
>> the non-smp barriers do not, and so the frozen/thawed processes
>> randomly get stuck in the wrong task state.
>>
>> thinking about it, shouldnt the freezer code be using smp barriers ?
>
> Yes, it should, but rmb() and wmb() are supposed to be SMP barriers.
>
> Or do you mean something different?
then what's the diff between smp_rmb() and rmb() ?
this is what i'm proposing:
--- a/kernel/freezer.c
+++ b/kernel/freezer.c
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ static inline void frozen_process(void)
{
if (!unlikely(current->flags & PF_NOFREEZE)) {
current->flags |= PF_FROZEN;
- wmb();
+ smp_wmb();
}
clear_freeze_flag(current);
}
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ bool freeze_task(struct task_struct *p, bool sig_only)
* the task as frozen and next clears its TIF_FREEZE.
*/
if (!freezing(p)) {
- rmb();
+ smp_rmb();
if (frozen(p))
return false;
-mike
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