linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 0/3] sched: membarrier updates

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Message-Id: <20200814164358.4783-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Date:   Fri, 14 Aug 2020 12:43:55 -0400
From:   Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/3] sched: membarrier updates

Hi,

Please find those three changes based on our recent discussions about
interaction between membarrier and exit_mm and kthread_use_mm. I added
documentation of memory ordering scenarios to membarrier.c as well.

Thanks,

Mathieu

Mathieu Desnoyers (3):
  sched: fix exit_mm vs membarrier (v2)
  sched: membarrier: cover kthread_use_mm (v2)
  sched: membarrier: document memory ordering scenarios

 kernel/exit.c             |   8 +++
 kernel/kthread.c          |  19 +++++++
 kernel/sched/idle.c       |   1 +
 kernel/sched/membarrier.c | 136 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 4 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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