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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/Makefile | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/membarrier.c | 66 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sys_ni.c | 3 |
3 files changed, 70 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile index d4988410b410..53abf008ecb3 100644 --- a/kernel/Makefile +++ b/kernel/Makefile @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP) += crash_dump.o obj-$(CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL) += jump_label.o obj-$(CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING) += context_tracking.o obj-$(CONFIG_TORTURE_TEST) += torture.o +obj-$(CONFIG_MEMBARRIER) += membarrier.o obj-$(CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM) += memremap.o diff --git a/kernel/membarrier.c b/kernel/membarrier.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..536c727a56e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/membarrier.c @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +/* + * 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; + } +} diff --git a/kernel/sys_ni.c b/kernel/sys_ni.c index 03c3875d9958..a02decf15583 100644 --- a/kernel/sys_ni.c +++ b/kernel/sys_ni.c @@ -245,3 +245,6 @@ cond_syscall(sys_bpf); /* execveat */ cond_syscall(sys_execveat); + +/* membarrier */ +cond_syscall(sys_membarrier); |