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Commit 8643cda5 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched/core, locking: Document Program-Order guarantees



These are some notes on the scheduler locking and how it provides
program order guarantees on SMP systems.

( This commit is in the locking tree, because the new documentation
  refers to a newly introduced locking primitive. )

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent b3e0b1b6
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@@ -1905,6 +1905,97 @@ static void ttwu_queue(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
	raw_spin_unlock(&rq->lock);
	raw_spin_unlock(&rq->lock);
}
}


/*
 * Notes on Program-Order guarantees on SMP systems.
 *
 *  MIGRATION
 *
 * The basic program-order guarantee on SMP systems is that when a task [t]
 * migrates, all its activity on its old cpu [c0] happens-before any subsequent
 * execution on its new cpu [c1].
 *
 * For migration (of runnable tasks) this is provided by the following means:
 *
 *  A) UNLOCK of the rq(c0)->lock scheduling out task t
 *  B) migration for t is required to synchronize *both* rq(c0)->lock and
 *     rq(c1)->lock (if not at the same time, then in that order).
 *  C) LOCK of the rq(c1)->lock scheduling in task
 *
 * Transitivity guarantees that B happens after A and C after B.
 * Note: we only require RCpc transitivity.
 * Note: the cpu doing B need not be c0 or c1
 *
 * Example:
 *
 *   CPU0            CPU1            CPU2
 *
 *   LOCK rq(0)->lock
 *   sched-out X
 *   sched-in Y
 *   UNLOCK rq(0)->lock
 *
 *                                   LOCK rq(0)->lock // orders against CPU0
 *                                   dequeue X
 *                                   UNLOCK rq(0)->lock
 *
 *                                   LOCK rq(1)->lock
 *                                   enqueue X
 *                                   UNLOCK rq(1)->lock
 *
 *                   LOCK rq(1)->lock // orders against CPU2
 *                   sched-out Z
 *                   sched-in X
 *                   UNLOCK rq(1)->lock
 *
 *
 *  BLOCKING -- aka. SLEEP + WAKEUP
 *
 * For blocking we (obviously) need to provide the same guarantee as for
 * migration. However the means are completely different as there is no lock
 * chain to provide order. Instead we do:
 *
 *   1) smp_store_release(X->on_cpu, 0)
 *   2) smp_cond_acquire(!X->on_cpu)
 *
 * Example:
 *
 *   CPU0 (schedule)  CPU1 (try_to_wake_up) CPU2 (schedule)
 *
 *   LOCK rq(0)->lock LOCK X->pi_lock
 *   dequeue X
 *   sched-out X
 *   smp_store_release(X->on_cpu, 0);
 *
 *                    smp_cond_acquire(!X->on_cpu);
 *                    X->state = WAKING
 *                    set_task_cpu(X,2)
 *
 *                    LOCK rq(2)->lock
 *                    enqueue X
 *                    X->state = RUNNING
 *                    UNLOCK rq(2)->lock
 *
 *                                          LOCK rq(2)->lock // orders against CPU1
 *                                          sched-out Z
 *                                          sched-in X
 *                                          UNLOCK rq(2)->lock
 *
 *                    UNLOCK X->pi_lock
 *   UNLOCK rq(0)->lock
 *
 *
 * However; for wakeups there is a second guarantee we must provide, namely we
 * must observe the state that lead to our wakeup. That is, not only must our
 * task observe its own prior state, it must also observe the stores prior to
 * its wakeup.
 *
 * This means that any means of doing remote wakeups must order the CPU doing
 * the wakeup against the CPU the task is going to end up running on. This,
 * however, is already required for the regular Program-Order guarantee above,
 * since the waking CPU is the one issueing the ACQUIRE (smp_cond_acquire).
 *
 */

/**
/**
 * try_to_wake_up - wake up a thread
 * try_to_wake_up - wake up a thread
 * @p: the thread to be awakened
 * @p: the thread to be awakened