Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jun 2019 03:54:06 +1000 | From | Joel Sing <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] RISC-V: Break load reservations during switch_to |
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On 19-06-07 15:22:22, Palmer Dabbelt wrote: > The comment describes why in detail. This was found because QEMU never > gives up load reservations, the issue is unlikely to manifest on real > hardware.
Makes sense, however it obviously will not help until qemu actually clears load reservations on SC (or otherwise handles the interleaved SC case).
See comment inline.
> Thanks to Carlos Eduardo for finding the bug! > > Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> > --- > Changes since v1 <20190605231735.26581-1-palmer@sifive.com>: > > * REG_SC is now defined as a helper macro, for any code that wants to SC > a register-sized value. > * The explicit #ifdef to check that TASK_THREAD_RA_RA is 0 has been > removed. Instead we rely on the assembler to catch non-zero SC > offsets. I've tested this does actually work. > > arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h | 1 + > arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S | 11 +++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h > index 5ad4cb622bed..946b671f996c 100644 > --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h > +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h > @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ > > #define REG_L __REG_SEL(ld, lw) > #define REG_S __REG_SEL(sd, sw) > +#define REG_SC __REG_SEL(sc.w, sc.d)
The instructions appear to be inverted here (i.e. "sc.d, sc.w").
> #define SZREG __REG_SEL(8, 4) > #define LGREG __REG_SEL(3, 2) > > diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S > index 1c1ecc238cfa..af685782af17 100644 > --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S > +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S > @@ -330,6 +330,17 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to) > add a3, a0, a4 > add a4, a1, a4 > REG_S ra, TASK_THREAD_RA_RA(a3) > + /* > + * The Linux ABI allows programs to depend on load reservations being > + * broken on context switches, but the ISA doesn't require that the > + * hardware ever breaks a load reservation. The only way to break a > + * load reservation is with a store conditional, so we emit one here. > + * Since nothing ever takes a load reservation on TASK_THREAD_RA_RA we > + * know this will always fail, but just to be on the safe side this > + * writes the same value that was unconditionally written by the > + * previous instruction. > + */ > + REG_SC x0, ra, TASK_THREAD_RA_RA(a3) > REG_S sp, TASK_THREAD_SP_RA(a3) > REG_S s0, TASK_THREAD_S0_RA(a3) > REG_S s1, TASK_THREAD_S1_RA(a3) > -- > 2.21.0 >
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