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Message-ID: <20131105140548.GD26895@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Tue, 5 Nov 2013 14:05:48 +0000
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@...ibm.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux PPC dev <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>,
	Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
	"linux@....linux.org.uk" <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"schwidefsky@...ibm.com" <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	"heiko.carstens@...ibm.com" <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] arch: Introduce new TSO memory barrier smp_tmb()

On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:53:44PM +0000, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:11:27PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Some comments below.  I believe that opcodes need to be fixed for IA64.
> I am unsure of the ifdefs and opcodes for arm64, but the ARM folks should
> be able to tell us.

[...]

> > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h
> > index 60f15e274e6d..a804093d6891 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h
> > @@ -53,10 +53,36 @@
> >  #define smp_mb()     barrier()
> >  #define smp_rmb()    barrier()
> >  #define smp_wmb()    barrier()
> > +
> > +#define smp_store_release(p, v)                                              \
> > +do {                                                                 \
> > +     smp_mb();                                                       \
> > +     ACCESS_ONCE(p) = (v);                                           \
> > +} while (0)
> > +
> > +#define smp_load_acquire(p, v)                                               \
> > +do {                                                                 \
> > +     typeof(p) ___p1 = ACCESS_ONCE(p);                               \
> > +     smp_mb();                                                       \
> > +     return ___p1;                                                   \
> > +} while (0)

What data sizes do these accessors operate on? Assuming that we want
single-copy atomicity (with respect to interrupts in the UP case), we
probably want a check to stop people passing in things like structs.

> >  #else
> >  #define smp_mb()     dmb(ish)
> >  #define smp_rmb()    smp_mb()
> >  #define smp_wmb()    dmb(ishst)
> > +
> 
> Seems like there should be some sort of #ifdef condition to distinguish
> between these.  My guess is something like:
> 
> #if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ > 7
> 
> But I must defer to the ARM guys.  For all I know, they might prefer
> arch/arm to stick with smp_mb() and have arch/arm64 do the ldar and stlr.

Yes. For arch/arm/, I'd rather we stick with the smp_mb() for the time
being. We don't (yet) have any 32-bit ARMv8 support, and the efforts towards
a single zImage could do without minor variations like this, not to mention
the usual backlash I get whenever introducing something that needs a
relatively recent binutils.

> > +#define smp_store_release(p, v)                                              \
> > +do {                                                                 \
> > +     asm volatile ("stlr %w0 [%1]" : : "r" (v), "r" (&p) : "memory");\
> > +} while (0)
> > +
> > +#define smp_load_acquire(p)                                          \
> > +do {                                                                 \
> > +     typeof(p) ___p1;                                                \
> > +     asm volatile ("ldar %w0, [%1]"                                  \
> > +                     : "=r" (___p1) : "r" (&p) : "memory");          \
> > +     return ___p1;                                                   \
> > +} while (0)
> >  #endif
> >
> >  #define read_barrier_depends()               do { } while(0)
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h
> > index d4a63338a53c..0da2d4ebb9a8 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h
> > @@ -35,10 +35,38 @@
> >  #define smp_mb()     barrier()
> >  #define smp_rmb()    barrier()
> >  #define smp_wmb()    barrier()
> > +
> > +#define smp_store_release(p, v)                                              \
> > +do {                                                                 \
> > +     smp_mb();                                                       \
> > +     ACCESS_ONCE(p) = (v);                                           \
> > +} while (0)
> > +
> > +#define smp_load_acquire(p, v)                                               \
> > +do {                                                                 \
> > +     typeof(p) ___p1 = ACCESS_ONCE(p);                               \
> > +     smp_mb();                                                       \
> > +     return ___p1;                                                   \
> > +} while (0)
> > +
> >  #else
> > +
> >  #define smp_mb()     asm volatile("dmb ish" : : : "memory")
> >  #define smp_rmb()    asm volatile("dmb ishld" : : : "memory")
> >  #define smp_wmb()    asm volatile("dmb ishst" : : : "memory")
> > +
> > +#define smp_store_release(p, v)                                              \
> > +do {                                                                 \
> > +     asm volatile ("stlr %w0 [%1]" : : "r" (v), "r" (&p) : "memory");\

Missing comma between the operands. Also, that 'w' output modifier enforces
a 32-bit store (same early question about sizes). Finally, it might be more
efficient to use "=Q" for the addressing mode, rather than take the address
of p manually.

> > +} while (0)
> > +
> > +#define smp_load_acquire(p)                                          \
> > +do {                                                                 \
> > +     typeof(p) ___p1;                                                \
> > +     asm volatile ("ldar %w0, [%1]"                                  \
> > +                     : "=r" (___p1) : "r" (&p) : "memory");          \
> > +     return ___p1;                                                   \

Similar comments here wrt Q constraint.

Random other question: have you considered how these accessors should behave
when presented with __iomem pointers?

Will
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