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Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:15:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 14:15:19 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US To: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" Cc: Julien Grall , Stefano Stabellini , Volodymyr Babchuk , Bertrand Marquis , Michal Orzel , Oleksii Kurochko From: Jan Beulich Subject: [PATCH] Arm: relax barrier in sync_vcpu_execstate() Autocrypt: addr=jbeulich@suse.com; keydata= xsDiBFk3nEQRBADAEaSw6zC/EJkiwGPXbWtPxl2xCdSoeepS07jW8UgcHNurfHvUzogEq5xk hu507c3BarVjyWCJOylMNR98Yd8VqD9UfmX0Hb8/BrA+Hl6/DB/eqGptrf4BSRwcZQM32aZK 7Pj2XbGWIUrZrd70x1eAP9QE3P79Y2oLrsCgbZJfEwCgvz9JjGmQqQkRiTVzlZVCJYcyGGsD /0tbFCzD2h20ahe8rC1gbb3K3qk+LpBtvjBu1RY9drYk0NymiGbJWZgab6t1jM7sk2vuf0Py O9Hf9XBmK0uE9IgMaiCpc32XV9oASz6UJebwkX+zF2jG5I1BfnO9g7KlotcA/v5ClMjgo6Gl MDY4HxoSRu3i1cqqSDtVlt+AOVBJBACrZcnHAUSuCXBPy0jOlBhxPqRWv6ND4c9PH1xjQ3NP nxJuMBS8rnNg22uyfAgmBKNLpLgAGVRMZGaGoJObGf72s6TeIqKJo/LtggAS9qAUiuKVnygo 3wjfkS9A3DRO+SpU7JqWdsveeIQyeyEJ/8PTowmSQLakF+3fote9ybzd880fSmFuIEJldWxp Y2ggPGpiZXVsaWNoQHN1c2UuY29tPsJgBBMRAgAgBQJZN5xEAhsDBgsJCAcDAgQVAggDBBYC AwECHgECF4AACgkQoDSui/t3IH4J+wCfQ5jHdEjCRHj23O/5ttg9r9OIruwAn3103WUITZee e7Sbg12UgcQ5lv7SzsFNBFk3nEQQCACCuTjCjFOUdi5Nm244F+78kLghRcin/awv+IrTcIWF hUpSs1Y91iQQ7KItirz5uwCPlwejSJDQJLIS+QtJHaXDXeV6NI0Uef1hP20+y8qydDiVkv6l IreXjTb7DvksRgJNvCkWtYnlS3mYvQ9NzS9PhyALWbXnH6sIJd2O9lKS1Mrfq+y0IXCP10eS FFGg+Av3IQeFatkJAyju0PPthyTqxSI4lZYuJVPknzgaeuJv/2NccrPvmeDg6Coe7ZIeQ8Yj t0ARxu2xytAkkLCel1Lz1WLmwLstV30g80nkgZf/wr+/BXJW/oIvRlonUkxv+IbBM3dX2OV8 AmRv1ySWPTP7AAMFB/9PQK/VtlNUJvg8GXj9ootzrteGfVZVVT4XBJkfwBcpC/XcPzldjv+3 HYudvpdNK3lLujXeA5fLOH+Z/G9WBc5pFVSMocI71I8bT8lIAzreg0WvkWg5V2WZsUMlnDL9 mpwIGFhlbM3gfDMs7MPMu8YQRFVdUvtSpaAs8OFfGQ0ia3LGZcjA6Ik2+xcqscEJzNH+qh8V m5jjp28yZgaqTaRbg3M/+MTbMpicpZuqF4rnB0AQD12/3BNWDR6bmh+EkYSMcEIpQmBM51qM EKYTQGybRCjpnKHGOxG0rfFY1085mBDZCH5Kx0cl0HVJuQKC+dV2ZY5AqjcKwAxpE75MLFkr wkkEGBECAAkFAlk3nEQCGwwACgkQoDSui/t3IH7nnwCfcJWUDUFKdCsBH/E5d+0ZnMQi+G0A nAuWpQkjM1ASeQwSHEeAWPgskBQL Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-ZohoMail-DKIM: pass (identity @suse.com) X-ZM-MESSAGEID: 1770210946533158500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" The counterpart in vcpu_context_saved() is smp_wmb(), and here we don't really need any more than a read barrier: The concern expressed in the comment is void, as updates to the context are necessarily observed ahead of ->is_running going false, by virtue of said barrier in vcpu_context_saved(). Fixes: f6790389613c ("xen/arm: sched: Ensure the vCPU context is seen befor= e vcpu_pause() returns") Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Acked-by: Julien Grall --- As to the tag, this is one of the cases where I'm on the edge between Amends: and Fixes:. Subsequently we may want to move the barrier into the sole common code caller, seeing that the other barrier also is in common code. Furthermore, seeing that for all but x86 the function is then entirely empty, we may want to allow it to be inline to avoid the unnecessary (tail) call. --- a/xen/arch/arm/domain.c +++ b/xen/arch/arm/domain.c @@ -342,11 +342,8 @@ void sync_vcpu_execstate(struct vcpu *v) * Per vcpu_context_saved(), the context can be observed when * v->is_running is false (the caller should check it before calling * this function). - * - * Note this is a full barrier to also prevent update of the context - * to happen before it was observed. */ - smp_mb(); + smp_rmb(); } =20 #define NEXT_ARG(fmt, args) = \