Introduce an architecture function that ensures the current CPU
issues a core serializing instruction before returning to usermode.
This is needed for the membarrier "sync_core" command.
Architectures defining the sync_core_before_usermode() static inline
need to select ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
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---
Changes since v1:
- Introduce include/linux/sync_core.h
---
include/linux/sync_core.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
init/Kconfig | 3 +++
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 include/linux/sync_core.h
diff --git a/include/linux/sync_core.h b/include/linux/sync_core.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..013da4b8b327
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/sync_core.h
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _LINUX_SYNC_CORE_H
+#define _LINUX_SYNC_CORE_H
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
+#include <asm/sync_core.h>
+#else
+/*
+ * This is a dummy sync_core_before_usermode() implementation that can be used
+ * on all architectures which return to user-space through core serializing
+ * instructions.
+ * If your architecture returns to user-space through non-core-serializing
+ * instructions, you need to write your own functions.
+ */
+static inline void sync_core_before_usermode(void)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_SYNC_CORE_H */
+
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 2d118b6adee2..30208da2221f 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1918,3 +1918,6 @@ config ASN1
functions to call on what tags.
source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"
+
+config ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
+ bool
--
2.11.0
