linux/arch/s390
Christian Borntraeger 72e1ad4200 KVM: s390: document memory ordering for kvm_s390_vcpu_wakeup
swait_active does not enforce any ordering and it can therefore trigger
some subtle races when the CPU moves the read for the check before a
previous store and that store is then used on another CPU that is
preparing the swait.

On s390 there is a call to swait_active in kvm_s390_vcpu_wakeup. The
good thing is, on s390 all potential races cannot happen because all
callers of kvm_s390_vcpu_wakeup do not store (no race) or use an atomic
operation, which handles memory ordering. Since this is not guaranteed
by the Linux semantics (but by the implementation on s390) let's add
smp_mb_after_atomic to make this obvious and document the ordering.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2017-11-09 09:35:06 +01:00
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appldata sched/headers: Move task statistics APIs from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/stat.h> 2017-03-03 01:43:43 +01:00
boot s390/decompressor: fix initrd corruption caused by bss clear 2017-03-22 08:21:20 +01:00
configs s390: update defconfig 2017-06-08 15:53:48 +02:00
crypto s390/crypto: fix aes/paes Kconfig dependeny 2017-06-12 16:25:58 +02:00
hypfs s390: hypfs: make inode explicitly non-modular 2016-10-31 17:55:40 +01:00
include s390/sthyi: add s390_sthyi system call 2017-10-09 11:15:36 +02:00
kernel s390/sthyi: add s390_sthyi system call 2017-10-09 11:15:36 +02:00
kvm KVM: s390: document memory ordering for kvm_s390_vcpu_wakeup 2017-11-09 09:35:06 +01:00
lib s390/uaccess: avoid mvcos jump label 2017-08-29 16:29:10 +02:00
mm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2017-09-12 06:01:59 -07:00
net bpf, s390x: implement jiting of BPF_J{LT, LE, SLT, SLE} 2017-08-09 16:53:57 -07:00
numa s390/numa: pin all possible cpus to nodes early 2016-12-07 07:23:33 +01:00
oprofile s390/dumpstack: restore reliable indicator for call traces 2016-10-17 14:44:30 +02:00
pci IOMMU Updates for Linux v4.14 2017-09-09 15:03:24 -07:00
tools First batch of KVM changes for 4.14 2017-09-08 15:18:36 -07:00
defconfig s390: update defconfig 2017-06-08 15:53:48 +02:00
Kbuild s390/crypto: Provide s390 specific arch random functionality. 2017-04-26 13:41:35 +02:00
Kconfig s390: add support for IBM z14 machines 2017-07-26 08:25:15 +02:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2017-02-22 10:20:04 -08:00
Makefile s390: add support for IBM z14 machines 2017-07-26 08:25:15 +02:00