membarrier: Provide register expedited private command

This introduces a "register private expedited" membarrier command which
allows eventual removal of important memory barrier constraints on the
scheduler fast-paths. It changes how the "private expedited" membarrier
command (new to 4.14) is used from user-space.

This new command allows processes to register their intent to use the
private expedited command.  This affects how the expedited private
command introduced in 4.14-rc is meant to be used, and should be merged
before 4.14 final.

Processes are now required to register before using
MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED, otherwise that command returns EPERM.

This fixes a problem that arose when designing requested extensions to
sys_membarrier() to allow JITs to efficiently flush old code from
instruction caches.  Several potential algorithms are much less painful
if the user register intent to use this functionality early on, for
example, before the process spawns the second thread.  Registering at
this time removes the need to interrupt each and every thread in that
process at the first expedited sys_membarrier() system call.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h b/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h
index 6d47b3249d8a..4e01ad7ffe98 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h
@@ -52,21 +52,30 @@
  *                          (non-running threads are de facto in such a
  *                          state). This only covers threads from the
  *                          same processes as the caller thread. This
- *                          command returns 0. The "expedited" commands
- *                          complete faster than the non-expedited ones,
- *                          they never block, but have the downside of
- *                          causing extra overhead.
+ *                          command returns 0 on success. The
+ *                          "expedited" commands complete faster than
+ *                          the non-expedited ones, they never block,
+ *                          but have the downside of causing extra
+ *                          overhead. A process needs to register its
+ *                          intent to use the private expedited command
+ *                          prior to using it, otherwise this command
+ *                          returns -EPERM.
+ * @MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED:
+ *                          Register the process intent to use
+ *                          MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED. Always
+ *                          returns 0.
  *
  * Command to be passed to the membarrier system call. The commands need to
  * be a single bit each, except for MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY which is assigned to
  * the value 0.
  */
 enum membarrier_cmd {
-        MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY                    = 0,
-        MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED                   = (1 << 0),
+        MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY                            = 0,
+        MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED                           = (1 << 0),
         /* reserved for MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED_EXPEDITED (1 << 1) */
         /* reserved for MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE (1 << 2) */
-        MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED        = (1 << 3),
+        MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED                = (1 << 3),
+        MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED       = (1 << 4),
 };
 
 #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_MEMBARRIER_H */