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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 
23 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct context_tracking, context_tracking) = {
24 #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
25 	.active = true,
26 #endif
27 };
28 
29 /**
30  * user_enter - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is going to
31  *              enter userspace mode.
32  *
33  * This function must be called right before we switch from the kernel
34  * to userspace, when it's guaranteed the remaining kernel instructions
35  * to execute won't use any RCU read side critical section because this
36  * function sets RCU in extended quiescent state.
37  */
user_enter(void)38 void user_enter(void)
39 {
40 	unsigned long flags;
41 
42 	/*
43 	 * Some contexts may involve an exception occuring in an irq,
44 	 * leading to that nesting:
45 	 * rcu_irq_enter() rcu_user_exit() rcu_user_exit() rcu_irq_exit()
46 	 * This would mess up the dyntick_nesting count though. And rcu_irq_*()
47 	 * helpers are enough to protect RCU uses inside the exception. So
48 	 * just return immediately if we detect we are in an IRQ.
49 	 */
50 	if (in_interrupt())
51 		return;
52 
53 	/* Kernel threads aren't supposed to go to userspace */
54 	WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->mm);
55 
56 	local_irq_save(flags);
57 	if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active) &&
58 	    __this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) != IN_USER) {
59 		/*
60 		 * At this stage, only low level arch entry code remains and
61 		 * then we'll run in userspace. We can assume there won't be
62 		 * any RCU read-side critical section until the next call to
63 		 * user_exit() or rcu_irq_enter(). Let's remove RCU's dependency
64 		 * on the tick.
65 		 */
66 		vtime_user_enter(current);
67 		rcu_user_enter();
68 		__this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, IN_USER);
69 	}
70 	local_irq_restore(flags);
71 }
72 
73 #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
74 /**
75  * preempt_schedule_context - preempt_schedule called by tracing
76  *
77  * The tracing infrastructure uses preempt_enable_notrace to prevent
78  * recursion and tracing preempt enabling caused by the tracing
79  * infrastructure itself. But as tracing can happen in areas coming
80  * from userspace or just about to enter userspace, a preempt enable
81  * can occur before user_exit() is called. This will cause the scheduler
82  * to be called when the system is still in usermode.
83  *
84  * To prevent this, the preempt_enable_notrace will use this function
85  * instead of preempt_schedule() to exit user context if needed before
86  * calling the scheduler.
87  */
preempt_schedule_context(void)88 void __sched notrace preempt_schedule_context(void)
89 {
90 	struct thread_info *ti = current_thread_info();
91 	enum ctx_state prev_ctx;
92 
93 	if (likely(ti->preempt_count || irqs_disabled()))
94 		return;
95 
96 	/*
97 	 * Need to disable preemption in case user_exit() is traced
98 	 * and the tracer calls preempt_enable_notrace() causing
99 	 * an infinite recursion.
100 	 */
101 	preempt_disable_notrace();
102 	prev_ctx = exception_enter();
103 	preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace();
104 
105 	preempt_schedule();
106 
107 	preempt_disable_notrace();
108 	exception_exit(prev_ctx);
109 	preempt_enable_notrace();
110 }
111 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(preempt_schedule_context);
112 #endif /* CONFIG_PREEMPT */
113 
114 /**
115  * user_exit - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is
116  *             exiting userspace mode and entering the kernel.
117  *
118  * This function must be called after we entered the kernel from userspace
119  * before any use of RCU read side critical section. This potentially include
120  * any high level kernel code like syscalls, exceptions, signal handling, etc...
121  *
122  * This call supports re-entrancy. This way it can be called from any exception
123  * handler without needing to know if we came from userspace or not.
124  */
user_exit(void)125 void user_exit(void)
126 {
127 	unsigned long flags;
128 
129 	if (in_interrupt())
130 		return;
131 
132 	local_irq_save(flags);
133 	if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) == IN_USER) {
134 		/*
135 		 * We are going to run code that may use RCU. Inform
136 		 * RCU core about that (ie: we may need the tick again).
137 		 */
138 		rcu_user_exit();
139 		vtime_user_exit(current);
140 		__this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, IN_KERNEL);
141 	}
142 	local_irq_restore(flags);
143 }
144 
guest_enter(void)145 void guest_enter(void)
146 {
147 	if (vtime_accounting_enabled())
148 		vtime_guest_enter(current);
149 	else
150 		__guest_enter();
151 }
152 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(guest_enter);
153 
guest_exit(void)154 void guest_exit(void)
155 {
156 	if (vtime_accounting_enabled())
157 		vtime_guest_exit(current);
158 	else
159 		__guest_exit();
160 }
161 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(guest_exit);
162 
163 
164 /**
165  * context_tracking_task_switch - context switch the syscall callbacks
166  * @prev: the task that is being switched out
167  * @next: the task that is being switched in
168  *
169  * The context tracking uses the syscall slow path to implement its user-kernel
170  * boundaries probes on syscalls. This way it doesn't impact the syscall fast
171  * path on CPUs that don't do context tracking.
172  *
173  * But we need to clear the flag on the previous task because it may later
174  * migrate to some CPU that doesn't do the context tracking. As such the TIF
175  * flag may not be desired there.
176  */
context_tracking_task_switch(struct task_struct * prev,struct task_struct * next)177 void context_tracking_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev,
178 			     struct task_struct *next)
179 {
180 	if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
181 		clear_tsk_thread_flag(prev, TIF_NOHZ);
182 		set_tsk_thread_flag(next, TIF_NOHZ);
183 	}
184 }
185