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/*
* 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/kvm_host.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/hardirq.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct context_tracking, context_tracking) = {
#ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
.active = true,
#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;
/*
* 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;
/* 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) {
/*
* 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.
*/
vtime_user_enter(current);
rcu_user_enter();
__this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, IN_USER);
}
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;
if (in_interrupt())
return;
local_irq_save(flags);
if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) == IN_USER) {
/*
* 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();
vtime_user_exit(current);
__this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, IN_KERNEL);
}
local_irq_restore(flags);
}
void guest_enter(void)
{
if (vtime_accounting_enabled())
vtime_guest_enter(current);
else
__guest_enter();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(guest_enter);
void guest_exit(void)
{
if (vtime_accounting_enabled())
vtime_guest_exit(current);
else
__guest_exit();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(guest_exit);
/**
* 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)
{
if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
clear_tsk_thread_flag(prev, TIF_NOHZ);
set_tsk_thread_flag(next, TIF_NOHZ);
}
}
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