linux/arch
Peter Zijlstra 7aa54be297 locking/qspinlock, x86: Provide liveness guarantee
On x86 we cannot do fetch_or() with a single instruction and thus end up
using a cmpxchg loop, this reduces determinism. Replace the fetch_or()
with a composite operation: tas-pending + load.

Using two instructions of course opens a window we previously did not
have. Consider the scenario:

	CPU0		CPU1		CPU2

 1)	lock
	  trylock -> (0,0,1)

 2)			lock
			  trylock /* fail */

 3)	unlock -> (0,0,0)

 4)					lock
					  trylock -> (0,0,1)

 5)			  tas-pending -> (0,1,1)
			  load-val <- (0,1,0) from 3

 6)			  clear-pending-set-locked -> (0,0,1)

			  FAIL: _2_ owners

where 5) is our new composite operation. When we consider each part of
the qspinlock state as a separate variable (as we can when
_Q_PENDING_BITS == 8) then the above is entirely possible, because
tas-pending will only RmW the pending byte, so the later load is able
to observe prior tail and lock state (but not earlier than its own
trylock, which operates on the whole word, due to coherence).

To avoid this we need 2 things:

 - the load must come after the tas-pending (obviously, otherwise it
   can trivially observe prior state).

 - the tas-pending must be a full word RmW instruction, it cannot be an XCHGB for
   example, such that we cannot observe other state prior to setting
   pending.

On x86 we can realize this by using "LOCK BTS m32, r32" for
tas-pending followed by a regular load.

Note that observing later state is not a problem:

 - if we fail to observe a later unlock, we'll simply spin-wait for
   that store to become visible.

 - if we observe a later xchg_tail(), there is no difference from that
   xchg_tail() having taken place before the tas-pending.

Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com
Cc: longman@redhat.com
Fixes: 59fb586b4a ("locking/qspinlock: Remove unbounded cmpxchg() loop from locking slowpath")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181003130957.183726335@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-10-16 17:33:54 +02:00
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alpha Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-08-24 09:25:39 -07:00
arc ARC: don't check for HIGHMEM pages in arch_dma_alloc 2018-09-04 13:21:38 -07:00
arm ARM: SoC fixes 2018-10-01 17:23:27 -07:00
arm64 Merge branch 'core/core' into x86/build, to prevent conflicts 2018-10-06 15:51:56 +02:00
c6x kbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS 2018-08-24 08:22:08 +09:00
h8300 Kbuild updates for v4.19 (2nd) 2018-08-25 13:40:38 -07:00
hexagon hexagon: modify ffs() and fls() to return int 2018-09-10 19:42:15 -05:00
ia64 ia64: Fix allnoconfig section mismatch for ioc_init/ioc_iommu_info 2018-08-22 14:12:47 -07:00
m68k m68k: fix early memory reservation for ColdFire MMU systems 2018-09-03 10:19:36 +10:00
microblaze kbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS 2018-08-24 08:22:08 +09:00
mips Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-09-12 17:32:50 -10:00
nds32 nds32: linker script: GCOV kernel may refers data in __exit 2018-09-05 10:16:26 +08:00
nios2 nios2: kconfig: remove duplicate DEBUG_STACK_USAGE symbol defintions 2018-08-27 09:47:20 +08:00
openrisc OpenRISC updates for 4.19 2018-08-23 14:09:37 -07:00
parisc Merge branch 'parisc-4.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux 2018-08-22 14:06:37 -07:00
powerpc powerpc fixes for 4.19 #3 2018-09-28 17:43:32 -07:00
riscv RISC-V: include linux/ftrace.h in asm-prototypes.h 2018-09-24 13:12:27 -07:00
s390 s390/vmlinux.lds: Move JUMP_TABLE_DATA into output section 2018-10-02 08:08:08 +02:00
sh kbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS 2018-08-24 08:22:08 +09:00
sparc sparc: set a default 32-bit dma mask for OF devices 2018-09-02 10:02:04 +02:00
um kbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS 2018-08-24 08:22:08 +09:00
unicore32 mm: convert return type of handle_mm_fault() caller to vm_fault_t 2018-08-17 16:20:28 -07:00
x86 locking/qspinlock, x86: Provide liveness guarantee 2018-10-16 17:33:54 +02:00
xtensa kbuild/arch/xtensa: Define LINKER_SCRIPT for the linker script 2018-10-04 10:05:38 +02:00
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Kconfig jump_label: Implement generic support for relative references 2018-09-27 17:56:47 +02:00