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sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 4 Feb 2024 15:25:12 +0000 (15:25 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 23 Feb 2024 08:25:27 +0000 (09:25 +0100)
commitb6a2a9cbb67545c825ec95f06adb7ff300a2ad71
tree18fed112c6b1458899b5441a7a74340c6a5f3f1a
parent0a962f2fbaa976af9eed21d0306370cded485787
sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier

commit 944d5fe50f3f03daacfea16300e656a1691c4a23 upstream.

On some systems, sys_membarrier can be very expensive, causing overall
slowdowns for everything.  So put a lock on the path in order to
serialize the accesses to prevent the ability for this to be called at
too high of a frequency and saturate the machine.

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Fixes: 22e4ebb97582 ("membarrier: Provide expedited private command")
Fixes: c5f58bd58f43 ("membarrier: Provide GLOBAL_EXPEDITED command")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/sched/membarrier.c