On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Oleg Nesterov [off-list ref] wrote:

On 06/27, Kees Cook wrote:

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It looks like SMP ARM issues dsb for rmb, which seems a bit expensive.
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0204g/CIHJFGFE.htm

...

I really want to avoid adding anything to the secure_computing()
execution path. :(

I must have missed something but I do not understand your concerns.

__secure_computing() is not trivial, and we are going to execute the
filters. Do you really think rmb() can add the noticeable difference?

Not to mention that we can only get here if we take the slow syscall
enter path due to TIF_SECCOMP...

On my box, with my fancy multi-phase seccomp patches, the total
seccomp overhead for a very short filter is about 13ns.  Adding a full
barrier would add several ns, I think.

Admittedly, this is x86, not ARM, so comparisons here are completely
bogus.  And that read memory barrier doesn't even need an instruction
on x86.  But still, let's try to keep this fast.

--Andy