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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/context_tracking.c | 75 |
1 files changed, 65 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/context_tracking.c b/kernel/context_tracking.c index e0e07fd55508..d566aba7e801 100644 --- a/kernel/context_tracking.c +++ b/kernel/context_tracking.c @@ -1,3 +1,19 @@ +/* + * Context tracking: Probe on high level context boundaries such as kernel + * and userspace. This includes syscalls and exceptions entry/exit. + * + * This is used by RCU to remove its dependency on the timer tick while a CPU + * runs in userspace. + * + * Started by Frederic Weisbecker: + * + * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc., Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> + * + * Many thanks to Gilad Ben-Yossef, Paul McKenney, Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton, + * Steven Rostedt, Peter Zijlstra for suggestions and improvements. + * + */ + #include <linux/context_tracking.h> #include <linux/rcupdate.h> #include <linux/sched.h> @@ -6,8 +22,8 @@ struct context_tracking { /* - * When active is false, hooks are not set to - * minimize overhead: TIF flags are cleared + * When active is false, probes are unset in order + * to minimize overhead: TIF flags are cleared * and calls to user_enter/exit are ignored. This * may be further optimized using static keys. */ @@ -24,6 +40,15 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct context_tracking, context_tracking) = { #endif }; +/** + * user_enter - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is going to + * enter userspace mode. + * + * This function must be called right before we switch from the kernel + * to userspace, when it's guaranteed the remaining kernel instructions + * to execute won't use any RCU read side critical section because this + * function sets RCU in extended quiescent state. + */ void user_enter(void) { unsigned long flags; @@ -39,40 +64,70 @@ void user_enter(void) if (in_interrupt()) return; + /* Kernel threads aren't supposed to go to userspace */ WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->mm); local_irq_save(flags); if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active) && __this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) != IN_USER) { __this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, IN_USER); + /* + * At this stage, only low level arch entry code remains and + * then we'll run in userspace. We can assume there won't be + * any RCU read-side critical section until the next call to + * user_exit() or rcu_irq_enter(). Let's remove RCU's dependency + * on the tick. + */ rcu_user_enter(); } local_irq_restore(flags); } + +/** + * user_exit - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is + * exiting userspace mode and entering the kernel. + * + * This function must be called after we entered the kernel from userspace + * before any use of RCU read side critical section. This potentially include + * any high level kernel code like syscalls, exceptions, signal handling, etc... + * + * This call supports re-entrancy. This way it can be called from any exception + * handler without needing to know if we came from userspace or not. + */ void user_exit(void) { unsigned long flags; - /* - * Some contexts may involve an exception occuring in an irq, - * leading to that nesting: - * rcu_irq_enter() rcu_user_exit() rcu_user_exit() rcu_irq_exit() - * This would mess up the dyntick_nesting count though. And rcu_irq_*() - * helpers are enough to protect RCU uses inside the exception. So - * just return immediately if we detect we are in an IRQ. - */ if (in_interrupt()) return; local_irq_save(flags); if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) == IN_USER) { __this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, IN_KERNEL); + /* + * We are going to run code that may use RCU. Inform + * RCU core about that (ie: we may need the tick again). + */ rcu_user_exit(); } local_irq_restore(flags); } + +/** + * context_tracking_task_switch - context switch the syscall callbacks + * @prev: the task that is being switched out + * @next: the task that is being switched in + * + * The context tracking uses the syscall slow path to implement its user-kernel + * boundaries probes on syscalls. This way it doesn't impact the syscall fast + * path on CPUs that don't do context tracking. + * + * But we need to clear the flag on the previous task because it may later + * migrate to some CPU that doesn't do the context tracking. As such the TIF + * flag may not be desired there. + */ void context_tracking_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev, struct task_struct *next) { |