linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] irq_work: Fix irq_work

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Message-Id: <20191108160858.31665-3-frederic@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri,  8 Nov 2019 17:08:56 +0100
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] irq_work: Fix irq_work_claim() ordering

When irq_work_claim() finds IRQ_WORK_PENDING flag already set, we just
return and don't raise a new IPI. We expect the destination to see
and handle our latest updades thanks to the pairing atomic_xchg()
in irq_work_run_list().

But cmpxchg() doesn't guarantee a full memory barrier upon failure. So
it's possible that the destination misses our latest updates.

So use atomic_fetch_or() instead that is unconditionally fully ordered
and also performs exactly what we want here and simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/irq_work.c | 22 +++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/irq_work.c b/kernel/irq_work.c
index df0dbf4d859b..255454a48346 100644
--- a/kernel/irq_work.c
+++ b/kernel/irq_work.c
@@ -29,24 +29,16 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct llist_head, lazy_list);
  */
 static bool irq_work_claim(struct irq_work *work)
 {
-	int flags, oflags, nflags;
+	int oflags;
 
+	oflags = atomic_fetch_or(IRQ_WORK_CLAIMED, &work->flags);
 	/*
-	 * Start with our best wish as a premise but only trust any
-	 * flag value after cmpxchg() result.
+	 * If the work is already pending, no need to raise the IPI.
+	 * The pairing atomic_xchg() in irq_work_run() makes sure
+	 * everything we did before is visible.
 	 */
-	flags = atomic_read(&work->flags) & ~IRQ_WORK_PENDING;
-	for (;;) {
-		nflags = flags | IRQ_WORK_CLAIMED;
-		oflags = atomic_cmpxchg(&work->flags, flags, nflags);
-		if (oflags == flags)
-			break;
-		if (oflags & IRQ_WORK_PENDING)
-			return false;
-		flags = oflags;
-		cpu_relax();
-	}
-
+	if (oflags & IRQ_WORK_PENDING)
+		return false;
 	return true;
 }
 
-- 
2.23.0