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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2013-07-01 17:57:25 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2013-07-01 17:57:25 +1000
commit24a72acac155576d630cf4304fa9cefb9b62ea1f (patch)
tree84d09427b319c613512316c658a3f6d6d8fe3dd1 /kernel/context_tracking.c
parent6e0b8bc965d25a8e0701eaca3fca5941b4f4b2b2 (diff)
parent8bb495e3f02401ee6f76d1b1d77f3ac9f079e376 (diff)
downloadlinux-24a72acac155576d630cf4304fa9cefb9b62ea1f.tar.bz2
Merge tag 'v3.10' into next
Merge 3.10 in order to get some of the last minute powerpc changes, resolve conflicts and add additional fixes on top of them.
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/context_tracking.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/context_tracking.c41
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/context_tracking.c b/kernel/context_tracking.c
index 65349f07b878..383f8231e436 100644
--- a/kernel/context_tracking.c
+++ b/kernel/context_tracking.c
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
*/
#include <linux/context_tracking.h>
-#include <linux/kvm_host.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/hardirq.h>
@@ -71,6 +70,46 @@ void user_enter(void)
local_irq_restore(flags);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
+/**
+ * preempt_schedule_context - preempt_schedule called by tracing
+ *
+ * The tracing infrastructure uses preempt_enable_notrace to prevent
+ * recursion and tracing preempt enabling caused by the tracing
+ * infrastructure itself. But as tracing can happen in areas coming
+ * from userspace or just about to enter userspace, a preempt enable
+ * can occur before user_exit() is called. This will cause the scheduler
+ * to be called when the system is still in usermode.
+ *
+ * To prevent this, the preempt_enable_notrace will use this function
+ * instead of preempt_schedule() to exit user context if needed before
+ * calling the scheduler.
+ */
+void __sched notrace preempt_schedule_context(void)
+{
+ struct thread_info *ti = current_thread_info();
+ enum ctx_state prev_ctx;
+
+ if (likely(ti->preempt_count || irqs_disabled()))
+ return;
+
+ /*
+ * Need to disable preemption in case user_exit() is traced
+ * and the tracer calls preempt_enable_notrace() causing
+ * an infinite recursion.
+ */
+ preempt_disable_notrace();
+ prev_ctx = exception_enter();
+ preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace();
+
+ preempt_schedule();
+
+ preempt_disable_notrace();
+ exception_exit(prev_ctx);
+ preempt_enable_notrace();
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(preempt_schedule_context);
+#endif /* CONFIG_PREEMPT */
/**
* user_exit - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is