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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/context_tracking.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/context_tracking.c | 211 |
1 files changed, 172 insertions, 39 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/context_tracking.c b/kernel/context_tracking.c index e0e07fd5550..5664985c46a 100644 --- a/kernel/context_tracking.c +++ b/kernel/context_tracking.c @@ -1,34 +1,66 @@ +/* + * Context tracking: Probe on high level context boundaries such as kernel + * and userspace. This includes syscalls and exceptions entry/exit. + * + * This is used by RCU to remove its dependency on the timer tick while a CPU + * runs in userspace. + * + * Started by Frederic Weisbecker: + * + * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc., Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> + * + * Many thanks to Gilad Ben-Yossef, Paul McKenney, Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton, + * Steven Rostedt, Peter Zijlstra for suggestions and improvements. + * + */ + #include <linux/context_tracking.h> #include <linux/rcupdate.h> #include <linux/sched.h> -#include <linux/percpu.h> #include <linux/hardirq.h> +#include <linux/export.h> +#include <linux/kprobes.h> -struct context_tracking { - /* - * When active is false, hooks are not set to - * minimize overhead: TIF flags are cleared - * and calls to user_enter/exit are ignored. This - * may be further optimized using static keys. - */ - bool active; - enum { - IN_KERNEL = 0, - IN_USER, - } state; -}; - -static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct context_tracking, context_tracking) = { -#ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE - .active = true, -#endif -}; +#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS +#include <trace/events/context_tracking.h> + +struct static_key context_tracking_enabled = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE; +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking_enabled); + +DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct context_tracking, context_tracking); +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking); + +void context_tracking_cpu_set(int cpu) +{ + if (!per_cpu(context_tracking.active, cpu)) { + per_cpu(context_tracking.active, cpu) = true; + static_key_slow_inc(&context_tracking_enabled); + } +} -void user_enter(void) +/** + * context_tracking_user_enter - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is going to + * enter userspace mode. + * + * This function must be called right before we switch from the kernel + * to userspace, when it's guaranteed the remaining kernel instructions + * to execute won't use any RCU read side critical section because this + * function sets RCU in extended quiescent state. + */ +void context_tracking_user_enter(void) { unsigned long flags; /* + * Repeat the user_enter() check here because some archs may be calling + * this from asm and if no CPU needs context tracking, they shouldn't + * go further. Repeat the check here until they support the inline static + * key check. + */ + if (!context_tracking_is_enabled()) + return; + + /* * Some contexts may involve an exception occuring in an irq, * leading to that nesting: * rcu_irq_enter() rcu_user_exit() rcu_user_exit() rcu_irq_exit() @@ -39,45 +71,146 @@ void user_enter(void) if (in_interrupt()) return; + /* Kernel threads aren't supposed to go to userspace */ WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->mm); local_irq_save(flags); - if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active) && - __this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) != IN_USER) { + if ( __this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) != IN_USER) { + if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) { + trace_user_enter(0); + /* + * At this stage, only low level arch entry code remains and + * then we'll run in userspace. We can assume there won't be + * any RCU read-side critical section until the next call to + * user_exit() or rcu_irq_enter(). Let's remove RCU's dependency + * on the tick. + */ + vtime_user_enter(current); + rcu_user_enter(); + } + /* + * Even if context tracking is disabled on this CPU, because it's outside + * the full dynticks mask for example, we still have to keep track of the + * context transitions and states to prevent inconsistency on those of + * other CPUs. + * If a task triggers an exception in userspace, sleep on the exception + * handler and then migrate to another CPU, that new CPU must know where + * the exception returns by the time we call exception_exit(). + * This information can only be provided by the previous CPU when it called + * exception_enter(). + * OTOH we can spare the calls to vtime and RCU when context_tracking.active + * is false because we know that CPU is not tickless. + */ __this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, IN_USER); - rcu_user_enter(); } local_irq_restore(flags); } +NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_user_enter); -void user_exit(void) +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT +/** + * preempt_schedule_context - preempt_schedule called by tracing + * + * The tracing infrastructure uses preempt_enable_notrace to prevent + * recursion and tracing preempt enabling caused by the tracing + * infrastructure itself. But as tracing can happen in areas coming + * from userspace or just about to enter userspace, a preempt enable + * can occur before user_exit() is called. This will cause the scheduler + * to be called when the system is still in usermode. + * + * To prevent this, the preempt_enable_notrace will use this function + * instead of preempt_schedule() to exit user context if needed before + * calling the scheduler. + */ +asmlinkage __visible void __sched notrace preempt_schedule_context(void) { - unsigned long flags; + enum ctx_state prev_ctx; + + if (likely(!preemptible())) + return; /* - * Some contexts may involve an exception occuring in an irq, - * leading to that nesting: - * rcu_irq_enter() rcu_user_exit() rcu_user_exit() rcu_irq_exit() - * This would mess up the dyntick_nesting count though. And rcu_irq_*() - * helpers are enough to protect RCU uses inside the exception. So - * just return immediately if we detect we are in an IRQ. + * Need to disable preemption in case user_exit() is traced + * and the tracer calls preempt_enable_notrace() causing + * an infinite recursion. */ + preempt_disable_notrace(); + prev_ctx = exception_enter(); + preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace(); + + preempt_schedule(); + + preempt_disable_notrace(); + exception_exit(prev_ctx); + preempt_enable_notrace(); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(preempt_schedule_context); +#endif /* CONFIG_PREEMPT */ + +/** + * context_tracking_user_exit - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is + * exiting userspace mode and entering the kernel. + * + * This function must be called after we entered the kernel from userspace + * before any use of RCU read side critical section. This potentially include + * any high level kernel code like syscalls, exceptions, signal handling, etc... + * + * This call supports re-entrancy. This way it can be called from any exception + * handler without needing to know if we came from userspace or not. + */ +void context_tracking_user_exit(void) +{ + unsigned long flags; + + if (!context_tracking_is_enabled()) + return; + if (in_interrupt()) return; local_irq_save(flags); if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) == IN_USER) { + if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) { + /* + * We are going to run code that may use RCU. Inform + * RCU core about that (ie: we may need the tick again). + */ + rcu_user_exit(); + vtime_user_exit(current); + trace_user_exit(0); + } __this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, IN_KERNEL); - rcu_user_exit(); } local_irq_restore(flags); } +NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_user_exit); -void context_tracking_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev, - struct task_struct *next) +/** + * __context_tracking_task_switch - context switch the syscall callbacks + * @prev: the task that is being switched out + * @next: the task that is being switched in + * + * The context tracking uses the syscall slow path to implement its user-kernel + * boundaries probes on syscalls. This way it doesn't impact the syscall fast + * path on CPUs that don't do context tracking. + * + * But we need to clear the flag on the previous task because it may later + * migrate to some CPU that doesn't do the context tracking. As such the TIF + * flag may not be desired there. + */ +void __context_tracking_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev, + struct task_struct *next) { - if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) { - clear_tsk_thread_flag(prev, TIF_NOHZ); - set_tsk_thread_flag(next, TIF_NOHZ); - } + clear_tsk_thread_flag(prev, TIF_NOHZ); + set_tsk_thread_flag(next, TIF_NOHZ); +} + +#ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE +void __init context_tracking_init(void) +{ + int cpu; + + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) + context_tracking_cpu_set(cpu); } +#endif |