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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2013-10-15 12:35:07 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-10-16 14:22:13 +0200
commit7c3f2ab7b844f1a859afbc3d41925e8a0faba5fa (patch)
tree134aee5c31160aeafef83b211eeed5db2b2ce61c
parented1b7732868035990f07aeb532b1d86272ea909e (diff)
sched/rt: Add missing rmb()
While discussing the proposed SCHED_DEADLINE patches which in parts mimic the existing FIFO code it was noticed that the wmb in rt_set_overloaded() didn't have a matching barrier. The only site using rt_overloaded() to test the rto_count is pull_rt_task() and we should issue a matching rmb before then assuming there's an rto_mask bit set. Without that smp_rmb() in there we could actually miss seeing the rto_mask bit. Also, change to using smp_[wr]mb(), even though this is SMP only code; memory barriers without smp_ always make me think they're against hardware of some sort. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Cc: luca.abeni@unitn.it Cc: bruce.ashfield@windriver.com Cc: dhaval.giani@gmail.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: hgu1972@gmail.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: darren@dvhart.com Cc: johan.eker@ericsson.com Cc: p.faure@akatech.ch Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: raistlin@linux.it Cc: claudio@evidence.eu.com Cc: insop.song@gmail.com Cc: michael@amarulasolutions.com Cc: liming.wang@windriver.com Cc: fchecconi@gmail.com Cc: jkacur@redhat.com Cc: tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Cc: harald.gustafsson@ericsson.com Cc: nicola.manica@disi.unitn.it Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131015103507.GF10651@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/rt.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
index e9304cdc26fe..a848f526b941 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -246,8 +246,10 @@ static inline void rt_set_overload(struct rq *rq)
* if we should look at the mask. It would be a shame
* if we looked at the mask, but the mask was not
* updated yet.
+ *
+ * Matched by the barrier in pull_rt_task().
*/
- wmb();
+ smp_wmb();
atomic_inc(&rq->rd->rto_count);
}
@@ -1626,6 +1628,12 @@ static int pull_rt_task(struct rq *this_rq)
if (likely(!rt_overloaded(this_rq)))
return 0;
+ /*
+ * Match the barrier from rt_set_overloaded; this guarantees that if we
+ * see overloaded we must also see the rto_mask bit.
+ */
+ smp_rmb();
+
for_each_cpu(cpu, this_rq->rd->rto_mask) {
if (this_cpu == cpu)
continue;