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    powerpc: Make sure IPI handlers see data written by IPI senders · 9fb1b36c
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    We have been observing hangs, both of KVM guest vcpu tasks and more
    generally, where a process that is woken doesn't properly wake up and
    continue to run, but instead sticks in TASK_WAKING state.  This
    happens because the update of rq->wake_list in ttwu_queue_remote()
    is not ordered with the update of ipi_message in
    smp_muxed_ipi_message_pass(), and the reading of rq->wake_list in
    scheduler_ipi() is not ordered with the reading of ipi_message in
    smp_ipi_demux().  Thus it is possible for the IPI receiver not to see
    the updated rq->wake_list and therefore conclude that there is nothing
    for it to do.
    
    In order to make sure that anything done before smp_send_reschedule()
    is ordered before anything done in the resulting call to scheduler_ipi(),
    this adds barriers in smp_muxed_message_pass() and smp_ipi_demux().
    The barrier in smp_muxed_message_pass() is a full barrier to ensure that
    there is a full ordering between the smp_send_reschedule() caller and
    scheduler_ipi().  In smp_ipi_demux(), we use xchg() rather than
    xchg_local() because xchg() includes release and acquire barriers.
    Using xchg() rather than xchg_local() makes sense given that
    ipi_message is not just accessed locally.
    
    This moves the barrier between setting the message and calling the
    cause_ipi() function into the individual cause_ipi implementations.
    Most of them -- those that used outb, out_8 or similar -- already had
    a full barrier because out_8 etc. include a sync before the MMIO
    store.  This adds an explicit barrier in the two remaining cases.
    
    These changes made no measurable difference to the speed of IPIs as
    measured using a simple ping-pong latency test across two CPUs on
    different cores of a POWER7 machine.
    
    The analysis of the reason why processes were not waking up properly
    is due to Milton Miller.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.0+
    Reported-by: default avatarMilton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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