rust: sync: Add memory barriers

Memory barriers are building blocks for concurrent code, hence provide
a minimal set of them.

The compiler barrier, barrier(), is implemented in inline asm instead of
using core::sync::atomic::compiler_fence() because memory models are
different: kernel's atomics are implemented in inline asm therefore the
compiler barrier should be implemented in inline asm as well. Also it's
currently only public to the kernel crate until there's a reasonable
driver usage.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Elle Rhumsaa <elle@weathered-steel.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250719030827.61357-10-boqun.feng@gmail.com/

2 files changed, 62 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync.rs b/rust/kernel/sync.rs
index 7e962e5429d2..bf8943c88a89 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/sync.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/sync.rs
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ use pin_init;
 mod arc;
 pub mod aref;
 pub mod atomic;
+pub mod barrier;
 pub mod completion;
 mod condvar;
 pub mod lock;
diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/barrier.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/barrier.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8f2d435fcd94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/kernel/sync/barrier.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+//! Memory barriers.
+//!
+//! These primitives have the same semantics as their C counterparts: and the precise definitions
+//! of semantics can be found at [`LKMM`].
+//!
+//! [`LKMM`]: srctree/tools/memory-model/
+
+/// A compiler barrier.
+///
+/// A barrier that prevents compiler from reordering memory accesses across the barrier.
+#[inline(always)]
+pub(crate) fn barrier() {
+    // By default, Rust inline asms are treated as being able to access any memory or flags, hence
+    // it suffices as a compiler barrier.
+    //
+    // SAFETY: An empty asm block.
+    unsafe { core::arch::asm!("") };
+}
+
+/// A full memory barrier.
+///
+/// A barrier that prevents compiler and CPU from reordering memory accesses across the barrier.
+#[inline(always)]
+pub fn smp_mb() {
+    if cfg!(CONFIG_SMP) {
+        // SAFETY: `smp_mb()` is safe to call.
+        unsafe { bindings::smp_mb() };
+    } else {
+        barrier();
+    }
+}
+
+/// A write-write memory barrier.
+///
+/// A barrier that prevents compiler and CPU from reordering memory write accesses across the
+/// barrier.
+#[inline(always)]
+pub fn smp_wmb() {
+    if cfg!(CONFIG_SMP) {
+        // SAFETY: `smp_wmb()` is safe to call.
+        unsafe { bindings::smp_wmb() };
+    } else {
+        barrier();
+    }
+}
+
+/// A read-read memory barrier.
+///
+/// A barrier that prevents compiler and CPU from reordering memory read accesses across the
+/// barrier.
+#[inline(always)]
+pub fn smp_rmb() {
+    if cfg!(CONFIG_SMP) {
+        // SAFETY: `smp_rmb()` is safe to call.
+        unsafe { bindings::smp_rmb() };
+    } else {
+        barrier();
+    }
+}