context_tracking: New context tracking susbsystem

Create a new subsystem that probes on kernel boundaries
to keep track of the transitions between level contexts
with two basic initial contexts: user or kernel.

This is an abstraction of some RCU code that use such tracking
to implement its userspace extended quiescent state.

We need to pull this up from RCU into this new level of indirection
because this tracking is also going to be used to implement an "on
demand" generic virtual cputime accounting. A necessary step to
shutdown the tick while still accounting the cputime.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ paulmck: fix whitespace error and email address. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
index 29ad351804e9..20ecac112e74 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/user-return-notifier.h>
 #include <linux/uprobes.h>
+#include <linux/context_tracking.h>
 
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/ucontext.h>
@@ -816,7 +817,7 @@ static void do_signal(struct pt_regs *regs)
 void
 do_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs, void *unused, __u32 thread_info_flags)
 {
-        rcu_user_exit();
+        user_exit();
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_MCE
         /* notify userspace of pending MCEs */
@@ -840,7 +841,7 @@ do_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs, void *unused, __u32 thread_info_flags)
         if (thread_info_flags & _TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY)
                 fire_user_return_notifiers();
 
-        rcu_user_enter();
+        user_enter();
 }
 
 void signal_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, void __user *frame, char *where)