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diff --git a/kernel/context_tracking.c b/kernel/context_tracking.c new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..5664985c46a --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/context_tracking.c @@ -0,0 +1,216 @@ +/* + * 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/hardirq.h> +#include <linux/export.h> +#include <linux/kprobes.h> + +#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); +	} +} + +/** + * 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() +	 * 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. +	 */ +	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.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); +	} +	local_irq_restore(flags); +} +NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_user_enter); + +#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) +{ +	enum ctx_state prev_ctx; + +	if (likely(!preemptible())) +		return; + +	/* +	 * 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); +	} +	local_irq_restore(flags); +} +NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_user_exit); + +/** + * __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) +{ +	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  | 
