Guests running within virtual machines might be affected by SMP effects even if
the guest itself is compiled without SMP support. This is an artifact of
interfacing with an SMP host while running an UP kernel. Using mandatory
barriers for this use-case would be possible but is often suboptimal.
In particular, virtio uses a bunch of confusing ifdefs to work around
this, while xen just uses the mandatory barriers.
To better handle this case, low-level virt_mb() etc macros are made available.
These are implemented trivially using the low-level __smp_xxx macros,
the purpose of these wrappers is to annotate those specific cases.
These have the same effect as smp_mb() etc when SMP is enabled, but generate
identical code for SMP and non-SMP systems. For example, virtual machine guests
should use virt_mb() rather than smp_mb() when synchronizing against a
(possibly SMP) host.
Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
On !SMP, most architectures define their
barriers as compiler barriers.
On SMP, most need an actual barrier.
Make it possible to remove the code duplication for
!SMP by defining low-level __smp_xxx barriers
which do not depend on the value of SMP, then
use them from asm-generic conditionally.
Besides reducing code duplication, these low level APIs will also be
useful for virtualization, where a barrier is sometimes needed even if
!SMP since we might be talking to another kernel on the same SMP system.
Both virtio and Xen drivers will benefit.
The smp_xxx variants should use __smp_XXX ones or barrier() depending on
SMP, identically for all architectures.
We keep ifndef guards around them for now - once/if all
architectures are converted to use the generic
code, we'll be able to remove these.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Allow architectures to override smp_store_release
and smp_load_acquire by guarding the defines
in asm-generic/barrier.h with ifndef directives.
This is in preparation to reusing asm-generic/barrier.h
on architectures which have their own definition
of these macros.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
With commit b92b8b35a2 ("locking/arch: Rename set_mb() to smp_store_mb()")
it was made clear that the context of this call (and thus set_mb)
is strictly for CPU ordering, as opposed to IO. As such all archs
should use the smp variant of mb(), respecting the semantics and
saving a mandatory barrier on UP.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445975631-17047-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Replace ACCESS_ONCE() macro in smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire()
with WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE() on x86, arm, arm64, ia64, metag, mips,
powerpc, s390, sparc and asm-generic since ACCESS_ONCE() does not work
reliably on non-scalar types.
WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE() were introduced in the following commits:
230fa253df ("kernel: Provide READ_ONCE and ASSIGN_ONCE")
43239cbe79 ("kernel: Change ASSIGN_ONCE(val, x) to WRITE_ONCE(x, val)")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438528264-714-1-git-send-email-andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
ARCv2 is the next generation ISA from Synopsys and basis for the
HS3{4,6,8} families of processors which retain the traditional ARC mantra of
low power and configurability and are now more performant and feature rich.
HS38x is a 10 stage pipeline core which supports MMU (with huge pages) and
SMP (upto 4 cores) among other features.
+ www.synopsys.com/dw/ipdir.php?ds=arc-hs38-processor
+ http://news.synopsys.com/2014-10-14-New-DesignWare-ARC-HS38-Processor-Doubles-Performance-for-Embedded-Linux-Applications
+ http://www.embedded.com/electronics-news/4435975/Synopsys-ARC-HS38-core-gives-2X-boost-to-Linux-based-apps
- Support for ARC SDP (Software Development platform): Main Board + CPU Cards
= AXS101: CPU Card with ARC700 in silicon @ 700 MHz
= AXS103: CPU Card with HS38x in FPGA
- Refactoring of ARCompact port to accomodate new ARCv2 ISA
- Miscll updates/cleanups
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Merge tag 'arc-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc
Pull ARC architecture updates from Vineet Gupta:
- support for HS38 cores based on ARCv2 ISA
ARCv2 is the next generation ISA from Synopsys and basis for the
HS3{4,6,8} families of processors which retain the traditional ARC mantra of
low power and configurability and are now more performant and feature rich.
HS38x is a 10 stage pipeline core which supports MMU (with huge pages) and
SMP (upto 4 cores) among other features.
+ www.synopsys.com/dw/ipdir.php?ds=arc-hs38-processor
+ http://news.synopsys.com/2014-10-14-New-DesignWare-ARC-HS38-Processor-Doubles-Performance-for-Embedded-Linux-Applications
+ http://www.embedded.com/electronics-news/4435975/Synopsys-ARC-HS38-core-gives-2X-boost-to-Linux-based-apps
- support for ARC SDP (Software Development platform): Main Board + CPU Cards
= AXS101: CPU Card with ARC700 in silicon @ 700 MHz
= AXS103: CPU Card with HS38x in FPGA
- refactoring of ARCompact port to accomodate new ARCv2 ISA
- misc updates/cleanups
* tag 'arc-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: (72 commits)
ARC: Fix build failures for ARCompact in linux-next after ARCv2 support
ARCv2: Allow older gcc to cope with new regime of ARCv2/ARCompact support
ARCv2: [vdk] dts files and defconfig for HS38 VDK
ARCv2: [axs103] Support ARC SDP FPGA platform for HS38x cores
ARC: [axs101] Prepare for AXS103
ARCv2: [nsim*hs*] Support simulation platforms for HS38x cores
ARCv2: All bits in place, allow ARCv2 builds
ARCv2: SLC: Handle explcit flush for DMA ops (w/o IO-coherency)
ARCv2: STAR 9000837815 workaround hardware exclusive transactions livelock
ARC: Reduce bitops lines of code using macros
ARCv2: barriers
arch: conditionally define smp_{mb,rmb,wmb}
ARC: add smp barriers around atomics per Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
ARC: add compiler barrier to LLSC based cmpxchg
ARCv2: SMP: intc: IDU 2nd level intc for dynamic IRQ distribution
ARCv2: SMP: clocksource: Enable Global Real Time counter
ARCv2: SMP: ARConnect debug/robustness
ARCv2: SMP: Support ARConnect (MCIP) for Inter-Core-Interrupts et al
ARC: make plat_smp_ops weak to allow over-rides
ARCv2: clocksource: Introduce 64bit local RTC counter
...
That way arches can define the minimal versions and still #include
asm-generic for defaults (vs. defining defaults in arch code)
See new barrier.h in arc for usage !
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Since set_mb() is really about an smp_mb() -- not a IO/DMA barrier
like mb() rename it to match the recent smp_load_acquire() and
smp_store_release().
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Since we assume set_mb() to result in a single store followed by a
full memory barrier, employ WRITE_ONCE().
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
There are a number of situations where the mandatory barriers rmb() and
wmb() are used to order memory/memory operations in the device drivers
and those barriers are much heavier than they actually need to be. For
example in the case of PowerPC wmb() calls the heavy-weight sync
instruction when for coherent memory operations all that is really needed
is an lsync or eieio instruction.
This commit adds a coherent only version of the mandatory memory barriers
rmb() and wmb(). In most cases this should result in the barrier being the
same as the SMP barriers for the SMP case, however in some cases we use a
barrier that is somewhere in between rmb() and smp_rmb(). For example on
ARM the rmb barriers break down as follows:
Barrier Call Explanation
--------- -------- ----------------------------------
rmb() dsb() Data synchronization barrier - system
dma_rmb() dmb(osh) data memory barrier - outer sharable
smp_rmb() dmb(ish) data memory barrier - inner sharable
These new barriers are not as safe as the standard rmb() and wmb().
Specifically they do not guarantee ordering between coherent and incoherent
memories. The primary use case for these would be to enforce ordering of
reads and writes when accessing coherent memory that is shared between the
CPU and a device.
It may also be noted that there is no dma_mb(). Most architectures don't
provide a good mechanism for performing a coherent only full barrier without
resorting to the same mechanism used in mb(). As such there isn't much to
be gained in trying to define such a function.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Since the smp_mb__{before,after}*() ops are fundamentally dependent on
how an arch can implement atomics it doesn't make sense to have 3
variants of them. They must all be the same.
Furthermore, the 3 variants suggest they're only valid for those 3
atomic ops, while we have many more where they could be applied.
So move away from
smp_mb__{before,after}_{atomic,clear}_{dec,inc,bit}() and reduce the
interface to just the two: smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic().
This patch prepares the way by introducing default implementations in
asm-generic/barrier.h that default to a full barrier and providing
__deprecated inlines for the previous 6 barriers if they're not
provided by the arch.
This should allow for a mostly painless transition (lots of deprecated
warns in the interim).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wr59327qdyi9mbzn6x937s4e@git.kernel.org
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: John Sullivan <jsrhbz@kanargh.force9.co.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
A number of situations currently require the heavyweight smp_mb(),
even though there is no need to order prior stores against later
loads. Many architectures have much cheaper ways to handle these
situations, but the Linux kernel currently has no portable way
to make use of them.
This commit therefore supplies smp_load_acquire() and
smp_store_release() to remedy this situation. The new
smp_load_acquire() primitive orders the specified load against
any subsequent reads or writes, while the new smp_store_release()
primitive orders the specifed store against any prior reads or
writes. These primitives allow array-based circular FIFOs to be
implemented without an smp_mb(), and also allow a theoretical
hole in rcu_assign_pointer() to be closed at no additional
expense on most architectures.
In addition, the RCU experience transitioning from explicit
smp_read_barrier_depends() and smp_wmb() to rcu_dereference()
and rcu_assign_pointer(), respectively resulted in substantial
improvements in readability. It therefore seems likely that
replacing other explicit barriers with smp_load_acquire() and
smp_store_release() will provide similar benefits. It appears
that roughly half of the explicit barriers in core kernel code
might be so replaced.
[Changelog by PaulMck]
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131213150640.908486364@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We're going to be adding a few new barrier primitives, and in order to
avoid endless duplication make more agressive use of
asm-generic/barrier.h.
Change the asm-generic/barrier.h such that it allows partial barrier
definitions and fills out the rest with defaults.
There are a few architectures (m32r, m68k) that could probably
do away with their barrier.h file entirely but are kept for now due to
their unconventional nop() implementation.
Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131213150640.846368594@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Create asm-generic/barrier.h and move the barrier definitions from
asm-generic/system.h to it.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Michael S. Tsirkin
Davidlohr Bueso
Andrey Konovalov
Linus Torvalds
Vineet Gupta
Peter Zijlstra
Alexander Duyck
David Howells