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.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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>
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