locking/spinlock, sched/core: Clarify requirements for smp_mb__after_spinlock()

There are 11 interpretations of the requirements described in the header
comment for smp_mb__after_spinlock(): one for each LKMM maintainer, and
one currently encoded in the Cat file. Stick to the latter (until a more
satisfactory solution is available).

This also reworks some snippets related to the barrier to illustrate the
requirements and to link them to the idioms which are relied upon at its
call sites.

Suggested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: akiyks@gmail.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com
Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716180605.16115-11-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/spinlock.h b/include/linux/spinlock.h
index fd57888d4942..3190997df9ca 100644
--- a/include/linux/spinlock.h
+++ b/include/linux/spinlock.h
@@ -114,29 +114,48 @@ do {								\
 #endif /*arch_spin_is_contended*/
 
 /*
- * This barrier must provide two things:
+ * smp_mb__after_spinlock() provides the equivalent of a full memory barrier
+ * between program-order earlier lock acquisitions and program-order later
+ * memory accesses.
  *
- *   - it must guarantee a STORE before the spin_lock() is ordered against a
- *     LOAD after it, see the comments at its two usage sites.
+ * This guarantees that the following two properties hold:
  *
- *   - it must ensure the critical section is RCsc.
+ *   1) Given the snippet:
  *
- * The latter is important for cases where we observe values written by other
- * CPUs in spin-loops, without barriers, while being subject to scheduling.
+ *	  { X = 0;  Y = 0; }
  *
- * CPU0			CPU1			CPU2
+ *	  CPU0				CPU1
  *
- *			for (;;) {
- *			  if (READ_ONCE(X))
- *			    break;
- *			}
- * X=1
- *			<sched-out>
- *						<sched-in>
- *						r = X;
+ *	  WRITE_ONCE(X, 1);		WRITE_ONCE(Y, 1);
+ *	  spin_lock(S);			smp_mb();
+ *	  smp_mb__after_spinlock();	r1 = READ_ONCE(X);
+ *	  r0 = READ_ONCE(Y);
+ *	  spin_unlock(S);
  *
- * without transitivity it could be that CPU1 observes X!=0 breaks the loop,
- * we get migrated and CPU2 sees X==0.
+ *      it is forbidden that CPU0 does not observe CPU1's store to Y (r0 = 0)
+ *      and CPU1 does not observe CPU0's store to X (r1 = 0); see the comments
+ *      preceding the call to smp_mb__after_spinlock() in __schedule() and in
+ *      try_to_wake_up().
+ *
+ *   2) Given the snippet:
+ *
+ *  { X = 0;  Y = 0; }
+ *
+ *  CPU0		CPU1				CPU2
+ *
+ *  spin_lock(S);	spin_lock(S);			r1 = READ_ONCE(Y);
+ *  WRITE_ONCE(X, 1);	smp_mb__after_spinlock();	smp_rmb();
+ *  spin_unlock(S);	r0 = READ_ONCE(X);		r2 = READ_ONCE(X);
+ *			WRITE_ONCE(Y, 1);
+ *			spin_unlock(S);
+ *
+ *      it is forbidden that CPU0's critical section executes before CPU1's
+ *      critical section (r0 = 1), CPU2 observes CPU1's store to Y (r1 = 1)
+ *      and CPU2 does not observe CPU0's store to X (r2 = 0); see the comments
+ *      preceding the calls to smp_rmb() in try_to_wake_up() for similar
+ *      snippets but "projected" onto two CPUs.
+ *
+ * Property (2) upgrades the lock to an RCsc lock.
  *
  * Since most load-store architectures implement ACQUIRE with an smp_mb() after
  * the LL/SC loop, they need no further barriers. Similarly all our TSO