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x86: ignore the sys_getcpu() tcache parameter 

dont use the vgetcpu tcache - it's causing problems with tasks
migrating, they'll see the old cache up to a jiffy after the
migration, further increasing the costs of the migration.

In the worst case they see a complete bogus information from
the tcache, when a sys_getcpu() call "invalidated" the cache
info by incrementing the jiffies _and_ the cpuid info in the
cache and the following vdso_getcpu() call happens after
vdso_jiffies have been incremented.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Ingo Molnar 2007-11-07 18:37:48 +01:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent 434b3d3209
commit 4307d1e5ad
2 changed files with 3 additions and 36 deletions
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arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c
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@ -13,32 +13,17 @@
#include <asm/vgtod.h>
#include "vextern.h"
long __vdso_getcpu(unsigned *cpu, unsigned *node, struct getcpu_cache *tcache)
long __vdso_getcpu(unsigned *cpu, unsigned *node, struct getcpu_cache *unused)
{
unsigned int dummy, p;
unsigned long j = 0;
/* Fast cache - only recompute value once per jiffies and avoid
relatively costly rdtscp/cpuid otherwise.
This works because the scheduler usually keeps the process
on the same CPU and this syscall doesn't guarantee its
results anyways.
We do this here because otherwise user space would do it on
its own in a likely inferior way (no access to jiffies).
If you don't like it pass NULL. */
if (tcache && tcache->blob[0] == (j = *vdso_jiffies)) {
p = tcache->blob[1];
} else if (*vdso_vgetcpu_mode == VGETCPU_RDTSCP) {
if (*vdso_vgetcpu_mode == VGETCPU_RDTSCP) {
/* Load per CPU data from RDTSCP */
rdtscp(dummy, dummy, p);
} else {
/* Load per CPU data from GDT */
asm("lsl %1,%0" : "=r" (p) : "r" (__PER_CPU_SEG));
}
if (tcache) {
tcache->blob[0] = j;
tcache->blob[1] = p;
}
if (cpu)
*cpu = p & 0xfff;
if (node)

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kernel/sys.c
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@ -1750,7 +1750,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
}
asmlinkage long sys_getcpu(unsigned __user *cpup, unsigned __user *nodep,
struct getcpu_cache __user *cache)
struct getcpu_cache __user *unused)
{
int err = 0;
int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
@ -1758,24 +1758,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_getcpu(unsigned __user *cpup, unsigned __user *nodep,
err |= put_user(cpu, cpup);
if (nodep)
err |= put_user(cpu_to_node(cpu), nodep);
if (cache) {
/*
* The cache is not needed for this implementation,
* but make sure user programs pass something
* valid. vsyscall implementations can instead make
* good use of the cache. Only use t0 and t1 because
* these are available in both 32bit and 64bit ABI (no
* need for a compat_getcpu). 32bit has enough
* padding
*/
unsigned long t0, t1;
get_user(t0, &cache->blob[0]);
get_user(t1, &cache->blob[1]);
t0++;
t1++;
put_user(t0, &cache->blob[0]);
put_user(t1, &cache->blob[1]);
}
return err ? -EFAULT : 0;
}