xref: /openbmc/linux/kernel/context_tracking.c (revision a8a28aff)
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 void context_tracking_cpu_set(int cpu)
34 {
35 	if (!per_cpu(context_tracking.active, cpu)) {
36 		per_cpu(context_tracking.active, cpu) = true;
37 		static_key_slow_inc(&context_tracking_enabled);
38 	}
39 }
40 
41 /**
42  * context_tracking_user_enter - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is going to
43  *                               enter userspace mode.
44  *
45  * This function must be called right before we switch from the kernel
46  * to userspace, when it's guaranteed the remaining kernel instructions
47  * to execute won't use any RCU read side critical section because this
48  * function sets RCU in extended quiescent state.
49  */
50 void context_tracking_user_enter(void)
51 {
52 	unsigned long flags;
53 
54 	/*
55 	 * Repeat the user_enter() check here because some archs may be calling
56 	 * this from asm and if no CPU needs context tracking, they shouldn't
57 	 * go further. Repeat the check here until they support the inline static
58 	 * key check.
59 	 */
60 	if (!context_tracking_is_enabled())
61 		return;
62 
63 	/*
64 	 * Some contexts may involve an exception occuring in an irq,
65 	 * leading to that nesting:
66 	 * rcu_irq_enter() rcu_user_exit() rcu_user_exit() rcu_irq_exit()
67 	 * This would mess up the dyntick_nesting count though. And rcu_irq_*()
68 	 * helpers are enough to protect RCU uses inside the exception. So
69 	 * just return immediately if we detect we are in an IRQ.
70 	 */
71 	if (in_interrupt())
72 		return;
73 
74 	/* Kernel threads aren't supposed to go to userspace */
75 	WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->mm);
76 
77 	local_irq_save(flags);
78 	if ( __this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) != IN_USER) {
79 		if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
80 			trace_user_enter(0);
81 			/*
82 			 * At this stage, only low level arch entry code remains and
83 			 * then we'll run in userspace. We can assume there won't be
84 			 * any RCU read-side critical section until the next call to
85 			 * user_exit() or rcu_irq_enter(). Let's remove RCU's dependency
86 			 * on the tick.
87 			 */
88 			vtime_user_enter(current);
89 			rcu_user_enter();
90 		}
91 		/*
92 		 * Even if context tracking is disabled on this CPU, because it's outside
93 		 * the full dynticks mask for example, we still have to keep track of the
94 		 * context transitions and states to prevent inconsistency on those of
95 		 * other CPUs.
96 		 * If a task triggers an exception in userspace, sleep on the exception
97 		 * handler and then migrate to another CPU, that new CPU must know where
98 		 * the exception returns by the time we call exception_exit().
99 		 * This information can only be provided by the previous CPU when it called
100 		 * exception_enter().
101 		 * OTOH we can spare the calls to vtime and RCU when context_tracking.active
102 		 * is false because we know that CPU is not tickless.
103 		 */
104 		__this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, IN_USER);
105 	}
106 	local_irq_restore(flags);
107 }
108 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_user_enter);
109 
110 #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
111 /**
112  * preempt_schedule_context - preempt_schedule called by tracing
113  *
114  * The tracing infrastructure uses preempt_enable_notrace to prevent
115  * recursion and tracing preempt enabling caused by the tracing
116  * infrastructure itself. But as tracing can happen in areas coming
117  * from userspace or just about to enter userspace, a preempt enable
118  * can occur before user_exit() is called. This will cause the scheduler
119  * to be called when the system is still in usermode.
120  *
121  * To prevent this, the preempt_enable_notrace will use this function
122  * instead of preempt_schedule() to exit user context if needed before
123  * calling the scheduler.
124  */
125 asmlinkage __visible void __sched notrace preempt_schedule_context(void)
126 {
127 	enum ctx_state prev_ctx;
128 
129 	if (likely(!preemptible()))
130 		return;
131 
132 	/*
133 	 * Need to disable preemption in case user_exit() is traced
134 	 * and the tracer calls preempt_enable_notrace() causing
135 	 * an infinite recursion.
136 	 */
137 	preempt_disable_notrace();
138 	prev_ctx = exception_enter();
139 	preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace();
140 
141 	preempt_schedule();
142 
143 	preempt_disable_notrace();
144 	exception_exit(prev_ctx);
145 	preempt_enable_notrace();
146 }
147 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(preempt_schedule_context);
148 #endif /* CONFIG_PREEMPT */
149 
150 /**
151  * context_tracking_user_exit - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is
152  *                              exiting userspace mode and entering the kernel.
153  *
154  * This function must be called after we entered the kernel from userspace
155  * before any use of RCU read side critical section. This potentially include
156  * any high level kernel code like syscalls, exceptions, signal handling, etc...
157  *
158  * This call supports re-entrancy. This way it can be called from any exception
159  * handler without needing to know if we came from userspace or not.
160  */
161 void context_tracking_user_exit(void)
162 {
163 	unsigned long flags;
164 
165 	if (!context_tracking_is_enabled())
166 		return;
167 
168 	if (in_interrupt())
169 		return;
170 
171 	local_irq_save(flags);
172 	if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) == IN_USER) {
173 		if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
174 			/*
175 			 * We are going to run code that may use RCU. Inform
176 			 * RCU core about that (ie: we may need the tick again).
177 			 */
178 			rcu_user_exit();
179 			vtime_user_exit(current);
180 			trace_user_exit(0);
181 		}
182 		__this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, IN_KERNEL);
183 	}
184 	local_irq_restore(flags);
185 }
186 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_user_exit);
187 
188 /**
189  * __context_tracking_task_switch - context switch the syscall callbacks
190  * @prev: the task that is being switched out
191  * @next: the task that is being switched in
192  *
193  * The context tracking uses the syscall slow path to implement its user-kernel
194  * boundaries probes on syscalls. This way it doesn't impact the syscall fast
195  * path on CPUs that don't do context tracking.
196  *
197  * But we need to clear the flag on the previous task because it may later
198  * migrate to some CPU that doesn't do the context tracking. As such the TIF
199  * flag may not be desired there.
200  */
201 void __context_tracking_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev,
202 				    struct task_struct *next)
203 {
204 	clear_tsk_thread_flag(prev, TIF_NOHZ);
205 	set_tsk_thread_flag(next, TIF_NOHZ);
206 }
207 
208 #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
209 void __init context_tracking_init(void)
210 {
211 	int cpu;
212 
213 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
214 		context_tracking_cpu_set(cpu);
215 }
216 #endif
217