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SubjectRe: linux-next: manual merge of the rcu tree with the tip tree
On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 07:15:40AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers
> <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> > /*
> > * The full memory barrier implied by mm_cpumask update operations
> > * is required by the membarrier system call.
> > */
> >
> > What we want to order here is:
> >
> > prev userspace memory accesses
> > schedule
> > <full mb> (it's already there) [A]
> > update to rq->curr changing the rq->curr->mm value
> > <full mb> (provided by mm_cpumask updates in switch_mm on x86) [B]
>
> If I understand this right, the issue with relying on CR3 writes is
> that the target CPU could switch to a kernel thread and back to the
> same user mm white the membarrier caller is reading its mm, right?

The thing that got my attention was your patch removing the load_cr3().
Ah, looking closer, it appears that you have not eliminated the CR3
load, but just renamed it to write_cr3(). So if there is always still
a CR3 load, you are right, I should be able to simply move the comment.
Or let you insert the comment into your patch?

So there is still always a CR3 load, correct? (Hey, I thought that
maybe x86 was moving to ASIDs or some such.)

Thanx, Paul

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