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diff --git a/kernel/context_tracking.c b/kernel/context_tracking.c new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..65349f07b87 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/context_tracking.c @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ +/* + * 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/kvm_host.h> +#include <linux/rcupdate.h> +#include <linux/sched.h> +#include <linux/hardirq.h> +#include <linux/export.h> + +DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct context_tracking, context_tracking) = { +#ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE + .active = true, +#endif +}; + +/** + * 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 user_enter(void) +{ + unsigned long flags; + + /* + * 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.active) && + __this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) != IN_USER) { + /* + * 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(); + __this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, IN_USER); + } + local_irq_restore(flags); +} + + +/** + * 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 user_exit(void) +{ + unsigned long flags; + + if (in_interrupt()) + return; + + local_irq_save(flags); + if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) == IN_USER) { + /* + * 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); + __this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, IN_KERNEL); + } + local_irq_restore(flags); +} + +void guest_enter(void) +{ + if (vtime_accounting_enabled()) + vtime_guest_enter(current); + else + __guest_enter(); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(guest_enter); + +void guest_exit(void) +{ + if (vtime_accounting_enabled()) + vtime_guest_exit(current); + else + __guest_exit(); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(guest_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) +{ + if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) { + clear_tsk_thread_flag(prev, TIF_NOHZ); + set_tsk_thread_flag(next, TIF_NOHZ); + } +} |