sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier
commit 944d5fe5 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: 22e4ebb9 ("membarrier: Provide expedited private command") Fixes: c5f58bd5 ("membarrier: Provide GLOBAL_EXPEDITED command") Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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