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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-09-26 16:08:27 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-09-26 16:08:27 -0700
commit4963ed48f2c20196d51a447ee87dc2815584fee4 (patch)
treea1902f466dafa00453889a4f1e66b00249ce0529 /kernel/membarrier.c
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parent518a7cb6980cd640c7f979d29021ad870f60d7d7 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts: net/ipv4/arp.c The net/ipv4/arp.c conflict was one commit adding a new local variable while another commit was deleting one. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2010, 2015 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
+ *
+ * membarrier system call
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/syscalls.h>
+#include <linux/membarrier.h>
+
+/*
+ * Bitmask made from a "or" of all commands within enum membarrier_cmd,
+ * except MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY.
+ */
+#define MEMBARRIER_CMD_BITMASK (MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED)
+
+/**
+ * sys_membarrier - issue memory barriers on a set of threads
+ * @cmd: Takes command values defined in enum membarrier_cmd.
+ * @flags: Currently needs to be 0. For future extensions.
+ *
+ * If this system call is not implemented, -ENOSYS is returned. If the
+ * command specified does not exist, or if the command argument is invalid,
+ * this system call returns -EINVAL. For a given command, with flags argument
+ * set to 0, this system call is guaranteed to always return the same value
+ * until reboot.
+ *
+ * All memory accesses performed in program order from each targeted thread
+ * is guaranteed to be ordered with respect to sys_membarrier(). If we use
+ * the semantic "barrier()" to represent a compiler barrier forcing memory
+ * accesses to be performed in program order across the barrier, and
+ * smp_mb() to represent explicit memory barriers forcing full memory
+ * ordering across the barrier, we have the following ordering table for
+ * each pair of barrier(), sys_membarrier() and smp_mb():
+ *
+ * The pair ordering is detailed as (O: ordered, X: not ordered):
+ *
+ * barrier() smp_mb() sys_membarrier()
+ * barrier() X X O
+ * smp_mb() X O O
+ * sys_membarrier() O O O
+ */
+SYSCALL_DEFINE2(membarrier, int, cmd, int, flags)
+{
+ if (unlikely(flags))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ switch (cmd) {
+ case MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY:
+ return MEMBARRIER_CMD_BITMASK;
+ case MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED:
+ if (num_online_cpus() > 1)
+ synchronize_sched();
+ return 0;
+ default:
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+}