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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:21:21 +0000 (18:21 +0200)
commite250f2b6aa9ef9cef4f239b15975867c4902f968
tree96766ddd846b1a53a497ee396620cd652f14e855
parent9f33b178cbb2f6b1fd45c6e7b69bd9900971f554
sched/membarrier: Call sync_core only before usermode for same mm

[ Upstream commit 2840cf02fae627860156737e83326df354ee4ec6 ]

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>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
include/linux/sched/mm.h