linux-kernel - [tip:sched/core] sched/preempt, futex: Update comments to clarify that preemption doesn't have to be disabled

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Date:	Tue, 19 May 2015 00:21:42 -0700
From:	tip-bot for David Hildenbrand <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, peterz@...radead.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, dahi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: [tip:sched/core] sched/preempt, futex:
  Update comments to clarify that preemption doesn't have to be disabled

Commit-ID:  2f09b227eeed4b3a072fe818c82a4c773b778cde
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/2f09b227eeed4b3a072fe818c82a4c773b778cde
Author:     David Hildenbrand <dahi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 11 May 2015 17:52:17 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 19 May 2015 08:39:17 +0200

sched/preempt, futex: Update comments to clarify that preemption doesn't have to be disabled

As arm64 and arc have no special implementations for !CONFIG_SMP, mutual
exclusion doesn't seem to rely on preemption.

Let's make it clear in the comments that preemption doesn't have to be
disabled when accessing user space in the futex code, so we can remove
preempt_disable() from pagefault_disable().

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: David.Laight@...LAB.COM
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: airlied@...ux.ie
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: benh@...nel.crashing.org
Cc: bigeasy@...utronix.de
Cc: borntraeger@...ibm.com
Cc: daniel.vetter@...el.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@...ibm.com
Cc: herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc: hocko@...e.cz
Cc: hughd@...gle.com
Cc: mst@...hat.com
Cc: paulus@...ba.org
Cc: ralf@...ux-mips.org
Cc: schwidefsky@...ibm.com
Cc: yang.shi@...driver.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431359540-32227-13-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/arc/include/asm/futex.h   | 10 +++++-----
 arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/futex.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/futex.h
index 4dc64dd..05b5aaf 100644
--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/futex.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/futex.h
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static inline int futex_atomic_op_inuser(int encoded_op, u32 __user *uaddr)
 	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(int)))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
-	pagefault_disable();	/* implies preempt_disable() */
+	pagefault_disable();
 
 	switch (op) {
 	case FUTEX_OP_SET:
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static inline int futex_atomic_op_inuser(int encoded_op, u32 __user *uaddr)
 		ret = -ENOSYS;
 	}
 
-	pagefault_enable();	/* subsumes preempt_enable() */
+	pagefault_enable();
 
 	if (!ret) {
 		switch (cmp) {
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ static inline int futex_atomic_op_inuser(int encoded_op, u32 __user *uaddr)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-/* Compare-xchg with preemption disabled.
+/* Compare-xchg with pagefaults disabled.
  *  Notes:
  *      -Best-Effort: Exchg happens only if compare succeeds.
  *          If compare fails, returns; leaving retry/looping to upper layers
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr, u32 oldval,
 	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(int)))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
-	pagefault_disable();	/* implies preempt_disable() */
+	pagefault_disable();
 
 	/* TBD : can use llock/scond */
 	__asm__ __volatile__(
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr, u32 oldval,
 	: "r"(oldval), "r"(newval), "r"(uaddr), "ir"(-EFAULT)
 	: "cc", "memory");
 
-	pagefault_enable();	/* subsumes preempt_enable() */
+	pagefault_enable();
 
 	*uval = val;
 	return val;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h
index 5f750dc..74069b3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ futex_atomic_op_inuser (int encoded_op, u32 __user *uaddr)
 	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(u32)))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
-	pagefault_disable();	/* implies preempt_disable() */
+	pagefault_disable();
 
 	switch (op) {
 	case FUTEX_OP_SET:
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ futex_atomic_op_inuser (int encoded_op, u32 __user *uaddr)
 		ret = -ENOSYS;
 	}
 
-	pagefault_enable();	/* subsumes preempt_enable() */
+	pagefault_enable();
 
 	if (!ret) {
 		switch (cmp) {
--
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