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    membarrier: Document scheduler barrier requirements · 306e0604
    Mathieu Desnoyers authored
    
    
    Document the membarrier requirement on having a full memory barrier in
    __schedule() after coming from user-space, before storing to rq->curr.
    It is provided by smp_mb__after_spinlock() in __schedule().
    
    Document that membarrier requires a full barrier on transition from
    kernel thread to userspace thread. We currently have an implicit barrier
    from atomic_dec_and_test() in mmdrop() that ensures this.
    
    The x86 switch_mm_irqs_off() full barrier is currently provided by many
    cpumask update operations as well as write_cr3(). Document that
    write_cr3() provides this barrier.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
    Cc: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
    Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>
    Cc: David Sehr <sehr@google.com>
    Cc: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Maged Michael <maged.michael@gmail.com>
    Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180129202020.8515-4-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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