linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/8] membarrier: Remove arm (32) support for SYNC

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Message-ID: <YMnQVoKvM5G34Yan@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Wed, 16 Jun 2021 12:20:06 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] membarrier: Remove arm (32) support for SYNC_CORE

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 12:16:27PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 08:21:12PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On arm32, the only way to safely flush icache from usermode is to call
> > cacheflush(2).  This also handles any required pipeline flushes, so
> > membarrier's SYNC_CORE feature is useless on arm.  Remove it.
> 
> So SYNC_CORE is there to help an architecture that needs to do something
> per CPU. If I$ invalidation is broadcast and I$ invalidation also
> triggers the flush of any uarch caches derived from it (if there are
> any).

Incomplete sentence there: + then we don't need SYNC_CORE.

> Now arm_syscall() NR(cacheflush) seems to do flush_icache_user_range(),
> which, if I read things right, end up in arch/arm/mm/*.S, but that
> doesn't consider cache_ops_need_broadcast().
> 
> Will suggests that perhaps ARM 11MPCore might need this due to their I$
> flush maybe not being broadcast