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Commit db896bbe authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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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: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Fixes: 22e4ebb9 ("membarrier: Provide expedited private command")
Fixes: c5f58bd5 ("membarrier: Provide GLOBAL_EXPEDITED command")
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[ converted to explicit mutex_*() calls - cleanup.h is not in this stable
  branch - gregkh ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 8f8f1856
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