While digging through the recent mmiowb preemption issue it came up that we aren't actually preventing IO from crossing a scheduling boundary. While it's a bit ugly to overload smp_mb__after_spinlock() with this behavior, it's what PowerPC is doing so there's some precedent.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt palmerdabbelt@google.com --- arch/riscv/include/asm/barrier.h | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/barrier.h index 3f1737f301cc..d0e24aaa2aa0 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/barrier.h +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/barrier.h @@ -58,8 +58,16 @@ do { \ * The AQ/RL pair provides a RCpc critical section, but there's not really any * way we can take advantage of that here because the ordering is only enforced * on that one lock. Thus, we're just doing a full fence. + * + * Since we allow writeX to be called from preemptive regions we need at least + * an "o" in the predecessor set to ensure device writes are visible before the + * task is marked as available for scheduling on a new hart. While I don't see + * any concrete reason we need a full IO fence, it seems safer to just upgrade + * this in order to avoid any IO crossing a scheduling boundary. In both + * instances the scheduler pairs this with an mb(), so nothing is necessary on + * the new hart. */ -#define smp_mb__after_spinlock() RISCV_FENCE(rw,rw) +#define smp_mb__after_spinlock() RISCV_FENCE(iorw,iorw)
#include <asm-generic/barrier.h>