linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] membarrier: Explicitly sync remote cores when SYNC

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Date:   Tue, 8 Dec 2020 20:13:40 -0800
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Anton Blanchard <anton@...abs.org>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] membarrier: Explicitly sync remote cores when
 SYNC_CORE is requested

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 9:07 PM Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> membarrier() does not explicitly sync_core() remote CPUs; instead, it
> relies on the assumption that an IPI will result in a core sync.  On
> x86, I think this may be true in practice, but it's not architecturally
> reliable.  In particular, the SDM and APM do not appear to guarantee
> that interrupt delivery is serializing.  While IRET does serialize, IPI
> return can schedule, thereby switching to another task in the same mm
> that was sleeping in a syscall.  The new task could then SYSRET back to
> usermode without ever executing IRET.
>
> Make this more robust by explicitly calling sync_core_before_usermode()
> on remote cores.  (This also helps people who search the kernel tree for
> instances of sync_core() and sync_core_before_usermode() -- one might be
> surprised that the core membarrier code doesn't currently show up in a
> such a search.)
>

Fixes: 70216e18e519 ("membarrier: Provide core serializing command,
*_SYNC_CORE")

> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>