2 * Context tracking: Probe on high level context boundaries such as kernel
3 * and userspace. This includes syscalls and exceptions entry/exit.
5 * This is used by RCU to remove its dependency on the timer tick while a CPU
8 * Started by Frederic Weisbecker:
10 * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc., Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
12 * Many thanks to Gilad Ben-Yossef, Paul McKenney, Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton,
13 * Steven Rostedt, Peter Zijlstra for suggestions and improvements.
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>
24 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
25 #include <trace/events/context_tracking.h>
27 DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(context_tracking_enabled);
28 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking_enabled);
30 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct context_tracking, context_tracking);
31 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking);
33 static bool context_tracking_recursion_enter(void)
37 recursion = __this_cpu_inc_return(context_tracking.recursion);
41 WARN_ONCE((recursion < 1), "Invalid context tracking recursion value %d\n", recursion);
42 __this_cpu_dec(context_tracking.recursion);
47 static void context_tracking_recursion_exit(void)
49 __this_cpu_dec(context_tracking.recursion);
53 * context_tracking_enter - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is going
54 * enter user or guest space mode.
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.
61 void __context_tracking_enter(enum ctx_state state)
63 /* Kernel threads aren't supposed to go to userspace */
64 WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->mm);
66 if (!context_tracking_recursion_enter())
69 if ( __this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) != state) {
70 if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
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
78 if (state == CONTEXT_USER) {
80 vtime_user_enter(current);
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
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
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.
97 __this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, state);
99 context_tracking_recursion_exit();
101 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(__context_tracking_enter);
102 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__context_tracking_enter);
104 void context_tracking_enter(enum ctx_state state)
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.
119 local_irq_save(flags);
120 __context_tracking_enter(state);
121 local_irq_restore(flags);
123 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_enter);
124 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking_enter);
126 void context_tracking_user_enter(void)
130 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_user_enter);
133 * context_tracking_exit - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is
134 * exiting user or guest mode and entering the kernel.
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...
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.
144 void __context_tracking_exit(enum ctx_state state)
146 if (!context_tracking_recursion_enter())
149 if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) == state) {
150 if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
152 * We are going to run code that may use RCU. Inform
153 * RCU core about that (ie: we may need the tick again).
156 if (state == CONTEXT_USER) {
157 vtime_user_exit(current);
161 __this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, CONTEXT_KERNEL);
163 context_tracking_recursion_exit();
165 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(__context_tracking_exit);
166 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__context_tracking_exit);
168 void context_tracking_exit(enum ctx_state state)
175 local_irq_save(flags);
176 __context_tracking_exit(state);
177 local_irq_restore(flags);
179 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_exit);
180 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking_exit);
182 void context_tracking_user_exit(void)
186 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_user_exit);
188 void __init context_tracking_cpu_set(int cpu)
190 static __initdata bool initialized = false;
192 if (!per_cpu(context_tracking.active, cpu)) {
193 per_cpu(context_tracking.active, cpu) = true;
194 static_branch_inc(&context_tracking_enabled);
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.
204 set_tsk_thread_flag(&init_task, TIF_NOHZ);
205 WARN_ON_ONCE(!tasklist_empty());
210 #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
211 void __init context_tracking_init(void)
215 for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
216 context_tracking_cpu_set(cpu);