[PATCH tip/core/rcu 03/20] Fix: Disable sys_membarrier when nohz_full is enabled

[Paul E. McKenney]

From: Mathieu Desnoyers 

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 
CC: Josh Triplett 
CC: Steven Rostedt 
CC: [3.10+]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Acked-by: Lai Jiangshan 
---
 kernel/membarrier.c | 4 
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/membarrier.c b/kernel/membarrier.c
index 536c727a56e9..9f9284f37f8d 100644
--- a/kernel/membarrier.c
+++ b/kernel/membarrier.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 #include 
 #include 
+#include 
 
 /*
  * 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) {
-- 
2.5.2

[PATCH tip/core/rcu 03/20] Fix: Disable sys_membarrier when nohz_full is enabled

[Paul E. McKenney]

From: Mathieu Desnoyers 

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 
CC: Josh Triplett 
CC: Steven Rostedt 
CC: [3.10+]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Acked-by: Lai Jiangshan 
---
 kernel/membarrier.c | 4 
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/membarrier.c b/kernel/membarrier.c
index 536c727a56e9..9f9284f37f8d 100644
--- a/kernel/membarrier.c
+++ b/kernel/membarrier.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 #include 
 #include 
+#include 
 
 /*
  * 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) {
-- 
2.5.2