linux/kernel/context_tracking.c
<<
>>
Prefs
   1// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
   2/*
   3 * Context tracking: Probe on high level context boundaries such as kernel
   4 * and userspace. This includes syscalls and exceptions entry/exit.
   5 *
   6 * This is used by RCU to remove its dependency on the timer tick while a CPU
   7 * runs in userspace.
   8 *
   9 *  Started by Frederic Weisbecker:
  10 *
  11 * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc., Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
  12 *
  13 * Many thanks to Gilad Ben-Yossef, Paul McKenney, Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton,
  14 * Steven Rostedt, Peter Zijlstra for suggestions and improvements.
  15 *
  16 */
  17
  18#include <linux/context_tracking.h>
  19#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
  20#include <linux/sched.h>
  21#include <linux/hardirq.h>
  22#include <linux/export.h>
  23#include <linux/kprobes.h>
  24
  25#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
  26#include <trace/events/context_tracking.h>
  27
  28DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(context_tracking_key);
  29EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking_key);
  30
  31DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct context_tracking, context_tracking);
  32EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking);
  33
  34static noinstr bool context_tracking_recursion_enter(void)
  35{
  36        int recursion;
  37
  38        recursion = __this_cpu_inc_return(context_tracking.recursion);
  39        if (recursion == 1)
  40                return true;
  41
  42        WARN_ONCE((recursion < 1), "Invalid context tracking recursion value %d\n", recursion);
  43        __this_cpu_dec(context_tracking.recursion);
  44
  45        return false;
  46}
  47
  48static __always_inline void context_tracking_recursion_exit(void)
  49{
  50        __this_cpu_dec(context_tracking.recursion);
  51}
  52
  53/**
  54 * context_tracking_enter - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is going
  55 *                          enter user or guest space mode.
  56 *
  57 * This function must be called right before we switch from the kernel
  58 * to user or guest space, when it's guaranteed the remaining kernel
  59 * instructions to execute won't use any RCU read side critical section
  60 * because this function sets RCU in extended quiescent state.
  61 */
  62void noinstr __context_tracking_enter(enum ctx_state state)
  63{
  64        /* Kernel threads aren't supposed to go to userspace */
  65        WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->mm);
  66
  67        if (!context_tracking_recursion_enter())
  68                return;
  69
  70        if ( __this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) != state) {
  71                if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
  72                        /*
  73                         * At this stage, only low level arch entry code remains and
  74                         * then we'll run in userspace. We can assume there won't be
  75                         * any RCU read-side critical section until the next call to
  76                         * user_exit() or rcu_irq_enter(). Let's remove RCU's dependency
  77                         * on the tick.
  78                         */
  79                        if (state == CONTEXT_USER) {
  80                                instrumentation_begin();
  81                                trace_user_enter(0);
  82                                vtime_user_enter(current);
  83                                instrumentation_end();
  84                        }
  85                        rcu_user_enter();
  86                }
  87                /*
  88                 * Even if context tracking is disabled on this CPU, because it's outside
  89                 * the full dynticks mask for example, we still have to keep track of the
  90                 * context transitions and states to prevent inconsistency on those of
  91                 * other CPUs.
  92                 * If a task triggers an exception in userspace, sleep on the exception
  93                 * handler and then migrate to another CPU, that new CPU must know where
  94                 * the exception returns by the time we call exception_exit().
  95                 * This information can only be provided by the previous CPU when it called
  96                 * exception_enter().
  97                 * OTOH we can spare the calls to vtime and RCU when context_tracking.active
  98                 * is false because we know that CPU is not tickless.
  99                 */
 100                __this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, state);
 101        }
 102        context_tracking_recursion_exit();
 103}
 104EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__context_tracking_enter);
 105
 106void context_tracking_enter(enum ctx_state state)
 107{
 108        unsigned long flags;
 109
 110        /*
 111         * Some contexts may involve an exception occuring in an irq,
 112         * leading to that nesting:
 113         * rcu_irq_enter() rcu_user_exit() rcu_user_exit() rcu_irq_exit()
 114         * This would mess up the dyntick_nesting count though. And rcu_irq_*()
 115         * helpers are enough to protect RCU uses inside the exception. So
 116         * just return immediately if we detect we are in an IRQ.
 117         */
 118        if (in_interrupt())
 119                return;
 120
 121        local_irq_save(flags);
 122        __context_tracking_enter(state);
 123        local_irq_restore(flags);
 124}
 125NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_enter);
 126EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking_enter);
 127
 128void context_tracking_user_enter(void)
 129{
 130        user_enter();
 131}
 132NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_user_enter);
 133
 134/**
 135 * context_tracking_exit - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is
 136 *                         exiting user or guest mode and entering the kernel.
 137 *
 138 * This function must be called after we entered the kernel from user or
 139 * guest space before any use of RCU read side critical section. This
 140 * potentially include any high level kernel code like syscalls, exceptions,
 141 * signal handling, etc...
 142 *
 143 * This call supports re-entrancy. This way it can be called from any exception
 144 * handler without needing to know if we came from userspace or not.
 145 */
 146void noinstr __context_tracking_exit(enum ctx_state state)
 147{
 148        if (!context_tracking_recursion_enter())
 149                return;
 150
 151        if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) == state) {
 152                if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
 153                        /*
 154                         * We are going to run code that may use RCU. Inform
 155                         * RCU core about that (ie: we may need the tick again).
 156                         */
 157                        rcu_user_exit();
 158                        if (state == CONTEXT_USER) {
 159                                instrumentation_begin();
 160                                vtime_user_exit(current);
 161                                trace_user_exit(0);
 162                                instrumentation_end();
 163                        }
 164                }
 165                __this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, CONTEXT_KERNEL);
 166        }
 167        context_tracking_recursion_exit();
 168}
 169EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__context_tracking_exit);
 170
 171void context_tracking_exit(enum ctx_state state)
 172{
 173        unsigned long flags;
 174
 175        if (in_interrupt())
 176                return;
 177
 178        local_irq_save(flags);
 179        __context_tracking_exit(state);
 180        local_irq_restore(flags);
 181}
 182NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_exit);
 183EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking_exit);
 184
 185void context_tracking_user_exit(void)
 186{
 187        user_exit();
 188}
 189NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_user_exit);
 190
 191void __init context_tracking_cpu_set(int cpu)
 192{
 193        static __initdata bool initialized = false;
 194
 195        if (!per_cpu(context_tracking.active, cpu)) {
 196                per_cpu(context_tracking.active, cpu) = true;
 197                static_branch_inc(&context_tracking_key);
 198        }
 199
 200        if (initialized)
 201                return;
 202
 203#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_TIF_NOHZ
 204        /*
 205         * Set TIF_NOHZ to init/0 and let it propagate to all tasks through fork
 206         * This assumes that init is the only task at this early boot stage.
 207         */
 208        set_tsk_thread_flag(&init_task, TIF_NOHZ);
 209#endif
 210        WARN_ON_ONCE(!tasklist_empty());
 211
 212        initialized = true;
 213}
 214
 215#ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
 216void __init context_tracking_init(void)
 217{
 218        int cpu;
 219
 220        for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
 221                context_tracking_cpu_set(cpu);
 222}
 223#endif
 224