rseq/membarrier: Add MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_RSEQ

This patchset is based on Google-internal RSEQ work done by Paul
Turner and Andrew Hunter.

When working with per-CPU RSEQ-based memory allocations, it is
sometimes important to make sure that a global memory location is no
longer accessed from RSEQ critical sections. For example, there can be
two per-CPU lists, one is "active" and accessed per-CPU, while another
one is inactive and worked on asynchronously "off CPU" (e.g.  garbage
collection is performed). Then at some point the two lists are
swapped, and a fast RCU-like mechanism is required to make sure that
the previously active list is no longer accessed.

This patch introduces such a mechanism: in short, membarrier() syscall
issues an IPI to a CPU, restarting a potentially active RSEQ critical
section on the CPU.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200923233618.2572849-1-posk@google.com

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index 75ac7f8ae93c..06db09875aa4 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_execveat(int dfd, const char __user *filename,
 			const char __user *const __user *argv,
 			const char __user *const __user *envp, int flags);
 asmlinkage long sys_userfaultfd(int flags);
-asmlinkage long sys_membarrier(int cmd, int flags);
+asmlinkage long sys_membarrier(int cmd, unsigned int flags, int cpu_id);
 asmlinkage long sys_mlock2(unsigned long start, size_t len, int flags);
 asmlinkage long sys_copy_file_range(int fd_in, loff_t __user *off_in,
 				    int fd_out, loff_t __user *off_out,