Userspace applications should be allowed to expect the membarrier system call with MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED command to issue memory barriers on nohz_full CPUs, but synchronize_sched() does not take those into account.
Given that we do not want unrelated processes to be able to affect real-time sensitive nohz_full CPUs, simply return ENOSYS when membarrier is invoked on a kernel with enabled nohz_full CPUs. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]> CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> CC: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> CC: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> CC: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]> CC: <[email protected]> [3.10+] --- kernel/membarrier.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/membarrier.c b/kernel/membarrier.c index 536c727..9f9284f 100644 --- a/kernel/membarrier.c +++ b/kernel/membarrier.c @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ #include <linux/syscalls.h> #include <linux/membarrier.h> +#include <linux/tick.h> /* * Bitmask made from a "or" of all commands within enum membarrier_cmd, @@ -51,6 +52,9 @@ */ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(membarrier, int, cmd, int, flags) { + /* MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED is not compatible with nohz_full. */ + if (tick_nohz_full_enabled()) + return -ENOSYS; if (unlikely(flags)) return -EINVAL; switch (cmd) { -- 2.1.4
