sched/membarrier: Call sync_core only before usermode for same mm
authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Thu, 19 Sep 2019 17:37:01 +0000 (13:37 -0400)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:42:30 +0000 (17:42 +0200)
When the prev and next task's mm change, switch_mm() provides the core
serializing guarantees before returning to usermode. The only case
where an explicit core serialization is needed is when the scheduler
keeps the same mm for prev and next.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190919173705.2181-4-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/linux/sched/mm.h

index 4a7944078cc35dddcea4963f1099e81d147c6936..8557ec6642130a58346c5f7e2d40a5777ad3e13e 100644 (file)
@@ -362,6 +362,8 @@ enum {
 
 static inline void membarrier_mm_sync_core_before_usermode(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
+       if (current->mm != mm)
+               return;
        if (likely(!(atomic_read(&mm->membarrier_state) &
                     MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE)))
                return;