xref: /openbmc/linux/kernel/context_tracking.c (revision 2c684d89)
1 /*
2  * Context tracking: Probe on high level context boundaries such as kernel
3  * and userspace. This includes syscalls and exceptions entry/exit.
4  *
5  * This is used by RCU to remove its dependency on the timer tick while a CPU
6  * runs in userspace.
7  *
8  *  Started by Frederic Weisbecker:
9  *
10  * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc., Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
11  *
12  * Many thanks to Gilad Ben-Yossef, Paul McKenney, Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton,
13  * Steven Rostedt, Peter Zijlstra for suggestions and improvements.
14  *
15  */
16 
17 #include <linux/context_tracking.h>
18 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
19 #include <linux/sched.h>
20 #include <linux/hardirq.h>
21 #include <linux/export.h>
22 #include <linux/kprobes.h>
23 
24 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
25 #include <trace/events/context_tracking.h>
26 
27 struct static_key context_tracking_enabled = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE;
28 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking_enabled);
29 
30 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct context_tracking, context_tracking);
31 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking);
32 
33 static bool context_tracking_recursion_enter(void)
34 {
35 	int recursion;
36 
37 	recursion = __this_cpu_inc_return(context_tracking.recursion);
38 	if (recursion == 1)
39 		return true;
40 
41 	WARN_ONCE((recursion < 1), "Invalid context tracking recursion value %d\n", recursion);
42 	__this_cpu_dec(context_tracking.recursion);
43 
44 	return false;
45 }
46 
47 static void context_tracking_recursion_exit(void)
48 {
49 	__this_cpu_dec(context_tracking.recursion);
50 }
51 
52 /**
53  * context_tracking_enter - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is going
54  *                          enter user or guest space mode.
55  *
56  * This function must be called right before we switch from the kernel
57  * to user or guest space, when it's guaranteed the remaining kernel
58  * instructions to execute won't use any RCU read side critical section
59  * because this function sets RCU in extended quiescent state.
60  */
61 void __context_tracking_enter(enum ctx_state state)
62 {
63 	/* Kernel threads aren't supposed to go to userspace */
64 	WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->mm);
65 
66 	if (!context_tracking_recursion_enter())
67 		return;
68 
69 	if ( __this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) != state) {
70 		if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
71 			/*
72 			 * At this stage, only low level arch entry code remains and
73 			 * then we'll run in userspace. We can assume there won't be
74 			 * any RCU read-side critical section until the next call to
75 			 * user_exit() or rcu_irq_enter(). Let's remove RCU's dependency
76 			 * on the tick.
77 			 */
78 			if (state == CONTEXT_USER) {
79 				trace_user_enter(0);
80 				vtime_user_enter(current);
81 			}
82 			rcu_user_enter();
83 		}
84 		/*
85 		 * Even if context tracking is disabled on this CPU, because it's outside
86 		 * the full dynticks mask for example, we still have to keep track of the
87 		 * context transitions and states to prevent inconsistency on those of
88 		 * other CPUs.
89 		 * If a task triggers an exception in userspace, sleep on the exception
90 		 * handler and then migrate to another CPU, that new CPU must know where
91 		 * the exception returns by the time we call exception_exit().
92 		 * This information can only be provided by the previous CPU when it called
93 		 * exception_enter().
94 		 * OTOH we can spare the calls to vtime and RCU when context_tracking.active
95 		 * is false because we know that CPU is not tickless.
96 		 */
97 		__this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, state);
98 	}
99 	context_tracking_recursion_exit();
100 }
101 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(__context_tracking_enter);
102 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__context_tracking_enter);
103 
104 void context_tracking_enter(enum ctx_state state)
105 {
106 	unsigned long flags;
107 
108 	/*
109 	 * Some contexts may involve an exception occuring in an irq,
110 	 * leading to that nesting:
111 	 * rcu_irq_enter() rcu_user_exit() rcu_user_exit() rcu_irq_exit()
112 	 * This would mess up the dyntick_nesting count though. And rcu_irq_*()
113 	 * helpers are enough to protect RCU uses inside the exception. So
114 	 * just return immediately if we detect we are in an IRQ.
115 	 */
116 	if (in_interrupt())
117 		return;
118 
119 	local_irq_save(flags);
120 	__context_tracking_enter(state);
121 	local_irq_restore(flags);
122 }
123 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_enter);
124 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking_enter);
125 
126 void context_tracking_user_enter(void)
127 {
128 	user_enter();
129 }
130 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_user_enter);
131 
132 /**
133  * context_tracking_exit - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is
134  *                         exiting user or guest mode and entering the kernel.
135  *
136  * This function must be called after we entered the kernel from user or
137  * guest space before any use of RCU read side critical section. This
138  * potentially include any high level kernel code like syscalls, exceptions,
139  * signal handling, etc...
140  *
141  * This call supports re-entrancy. This way it can be called from any exception
142  * handler without needing to know if we came from userspace or not.
143  */
144 void __context_tracking_exit(enum ctx_state state)
145 {
146 	if (!context_tracking_recursion_enter())
147 		return;
148 
149 	if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) == state) {
150 		if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
151 			/*
152 			 * We are going to run code that may use RCU. Inform
153 			 * RCU core about that (ie: we may need the tick again).
154 			 */
155 			rcu_user_exit();
156 			if (state == CONTEXT_USER) {
157 				vtime_user_exit(current);
158 				trace_user_exit(0);
159 			}
160 		}
161 		__this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, CONTEXT_KERNEL);
162 	}
163 	context_tracking_recursion_exit();
164 }
165 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(__context_tracking_exit);
166 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__context_tracking_exit);
167 
168 void context_tracking_exit(enum ctx_state state)
169 {
170 	unsigned long flags;
171 
172 	if (in_interrupt())
173 		return;
174 
175 	local_irq_save(flags);
176 	__context_tracking_exit(state);
177 	local_irq_restore(flags);
178 }
179 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_exit);
180 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking_exit);
181 
182 void context_tracking_user_exit(void)
183 {
184 	user_exit();
185 }
186 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_user_exit);
187 
188 void __init context_tracking_cpu_set(int cpu)
189 {
190 	static __initdata bool initialized = false;
191 
192 	if (!per_cpu(context_tracking.active, cpu)) {
193 		per_cpu(context_tracking.active, cpu) = true;
194 		static_key_slow_inc(&context_tracking_enabled);
195 	}
196 
197 	if (initialized)
198 		return;
199 
200 	/*
201 	 * Set TIF_NOHZ to init/0 and let it propagate to all tasks through fork
202 	 * This assumes that init is the only task at this early boot stage.
203 	 */
204 	set_tsk_thread_flag(&init_task, TIF_NOHZ);
205 	WARN_ON_ONCE(!tasklist_empty());
206 
207 	initialized = true;
208 }
209 
210 #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
211 void __init context_tracking_init(void)
212 {
213 	int cpu;
214 
215 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
216 		context_tracking_cpu_set(cpu);
217 }
218 #endif
219