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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 #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER
26 
27 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
28 #include <trace/events/context_tracking.h>
29 
30 DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(context_tracking_key);
31 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking_key);
32 
33 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct context_tracking, context_tracking);
34 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking);
35 
36 static noinstr bool context_tracking_recursion_enter(void)
37 {
38 	int recursion;
39 
40 	recursion = __this_cpu_inc_return(context_tracking.recursion);
41 	if (recursion == 1)
42 		return true;
43 
44 	WARN_ONCE((recursion < 1), "Invalid context tracking recursion value %d\n", recursion);
45 	__this_cpu_dec(context_tracking.recursion);
46 
47 	return false;
48 }
49 
50 static __always_inline void context_tracking_recursion_exit(void)
51 {
52 	__this_cpu_dec(context_tracking.recursion);
53 }
54 
55 /**
56  * __ct_user_enter - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is going
57  *		     to enter user or guest space mode.
58  *
59  * This function must be called right before we switch from the kernel
60  * to user or guest space, when it's guaranteed the remaining kernel
61  * instructions to execute won't use any RCU read side critical section
62  * because this function sets RCU in extended quiescent state.
63  */
64 void noinstr __ct_user_enter(enum ctx_state state)
65 {
66 	/* Kernel threads aren't supposed to go to userspace */
67 	WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->mm);
68 
69 	if (!context_tracking_recursion_enter())
70 		return;
71 
72 	if ( __this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) != state) {
73 		if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
74 			/*
75 			 * At this stage, only low level arch entry code remains and
76 			 * then we'll run in userspace. We can assume there won't be
77 			 * any RCU read-side critical section until the next call to
78 			 * user_exit() or rcu_irq_enter(). Let's remove RCU's dependency
79 			 * on the tick.
80 			 */
81 			if (state == CONTEXT_USER) {
82 				instrumentation_begin();
83 				trace_user_enter(0);
84 				vtime_user_enter(current);
85 				instrumentation_end();
86 			}
87 			rcu_user_enter();
88 		}
89 		/*
90 		 * Even if context tracking is disabled on this CPU, because it's outside
91 		 * the full dynticks mask for example, we still have to keep track of the
92 		 * context transitions and states to prevent inconsistency on those of
93 		 * other CPUs.
94 		 * If a task triggers an exception in userspace, sleep on the exception
95 		 * handler and then migrate to another CPU, that new CPU must know where
96 		 * the exception returns by the time we call exception_exit().
97 		 * This information can only be provided by the previous CPU when it called
98 		 * exception_enter().
99 		 * OTOH we can spare the calls to vtime and RCU when context_tracking.active
100 		 * is false because we know that CPU is not tickless.
101 		 */
102 		__this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, state);
103 	}
104 	context_tracking_recursion_exit();
105 }
106 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__ct_user_enter);
107 
108 /*
109  * OBSOLETE:
110  * This function should be noinstr but the below local_irq_restore() is
111  * unsafe because it involves illegal RCU uses through tracing and lockdep.
112  * This is unlikely to be fixed as this function is obsolete. The preferred
113  * way is to call __context_tracking_enter() through user_enter_irqoff()
114  * or context_tracking_guest_enter(). It should be the arch entry code
115  * responsibility to call into context tracking with IRQs disabled.
116  */
117 void ct_user_enter(enum ctx_state state)
118 {
119 	unsigned long flags;
120 
121 	/*
122 	 * Some contexts may involve an exception occuring in an irq,
123 	 * leading to that nesting:
124 	 * rcu_irq_enter() rcu_user_exit() rcu_user_exit() rcu_irq_exit()
125 	 * This would mess up the dyntick_nesting count though. And rcu_irq_*()
126 	 * helpers are enough to protect RCU uses inside the exception. So
127 	 * just return immediately if we detect we are in an IRQ.
128 	 */
129 	if (in_interrupt())
130 		return;
131 
132 	local_irq_save(flags);
133 	__ct_user_enter(state);
134 	local_irq_restore(flags);
135 }
136 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(ct_user_enter);
137 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ct_user_enter);
138 
139 /**
140  * user_enter_callable() - Unfortunate ASM callable version of user_enter() for
141  *			   archs that didn't manage to check the context tracking
142  *			   static key from low level code.
143  *
144  * This OBSOLETE function should be noinstr but it unsafely calls
145  * local_irq_restore(), involving illegal RCU uses through tracing and lockdep.
146  * This is unlikely to be fixed as this function is obsolete. The preferred
147  * way is to call user_enter_irqoff(). It should be the arch entry code
148  * responsibility to call into context tracking with IRQs disabled.
149  */
150 void user_enter_callable(void)
151 {
152 	user_enter();
153 }
154 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(user_enter_callable);
155 
156 /**
157  * __ct_user_exit - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is
158  *		    exiting user or guest mode and entering the kernel.
159  *
160  * This function must be called after we entered the kernel from user or
161  * guest space before any use of RCU read side critical section. This
162  * potentially include any high level kernel code like syscalls, exceptions,
163  * signal handling, etc...
164  *
165  * This call supports re-entrancy. This way it can be called from any exception
166  * handler without needing to know if we came from userspace or not.
167  */
168 void noinstr __ct_user_exit(enum ctx_state state)
169 {
170 	if (!context_tracking_recursion_enter())
171 		return;
172 
173 	if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) == state) {
174 		if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
175 			/*
176 			 * We are going to run code that may use RCU. Inform
177 			 * RCU core about that (ie: we may need the tick again).
178 			 */
179 			rcu_user_exit();
180 			if (state == CONTEXT_USER) {
181 				instrumentation_begin();
182 				vtime_user_exit(current);
183 				trace_user_exit(0);
184 				instrumentation_end();
185 			}
186 		}
187 		__this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, CONTEXT_KERNEL);
188 	}
189 	context_tracking_recursion_exit();
190 }
191 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__ct_user_exit);
192 
193 /*
194  * OBSOLETE:
195  * This function should be noinstr but the below local_irq_save() is
196  * unsafe because it involves illegal RCU uses through tracing and lockdep.
197  * This is unlikely to be fixed as this function is obsolete. The preferred
198  * way is to call __context_tracking_exit() through user_exit_irqoff()
199  * or context_tracking_guest_exit(). It should be the arch entry code
200  * responsibility to call into context tracking with IRQs disabled.
201  */
202 void ct_user_exit(enum ctx_state state)
203 {
204 	unsigned long flags;
205 
206 	if (in_interrupt())
207 		return;
208 
209 	local_irq_save(flags);
210 	__ct_user_exit(state);
211 	local_irq_restore(flags);
212 }
213 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(ct_user_exit);
214 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ct_user_exit);
215 
216 /**
217  * user_exit_callable() - Unfortunate ASM callable version of user_exit() for
218  *			  archs that didn't manage to check the context tracking
219  *			  static key from low level code.
220  *
221  * This OBSOLETE function should be noinstr but it unsafely calls local_irq_save(),
222  * involving illegal RCU uses through tracing and lockdep. This is unlikely
223  * to be fixed as this function is obsolete. The preferred way is to call
224  * user_exit_irqoff(). It should be the arch entry code responsibility to
225  * call into context tracking with IRQs disabled.
226  */
227 void user_exit_callable(void)
228 {
229 	user_exit();
230 }
231 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(user_exit_callable);
232 
233 void __init ct_cpu_track_user(int cpu)
234 {
235 	static __initdata bool initialized = false;
236 
237 	if (!per_cpu(context_tracking.active, cpu)) {
238 		per_cpu(context_tracking.active, cpu) = true;
239 		static_branch_inc(&context_tracking_key);
240 	}
241 
242 	if (initialized)
243 		return;
244 
245 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_TIF_NOHZ
246 	/*
247 	 * Set TIF_NOHZ to init/0 and let it propagate to all tasks through fork
248 	 * This assumes that init is the only task at this early boot stage.
249 	 */
250 	set_tsk_thread_flag(&init_task, TIF_NOHZ);
251 #endif
252 	WARN_ON_ONCE(!tasklist_empty());
253 
254 	initialized = true;
255 }
256 
257 #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER_FORCE
258 void __init context_tracking_init(void)
259 {
260 	int cpu;
261 
262 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
263 		ct_cpu_track_user(cpu);
264 }
265 #endif
266 
267 #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER */
268