1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
3 * Context tracking: Probe on high level context boundaries such as kernel
4 * and userspace. This includes syscalls and exceptions entry/exit.
6 * This is used by RCU to remove its dependency on the timer tick while a CPU
9 * Started by Frederic Weisbecker:
11 * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc., Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
13 * Many thanks to Gilad Ben-Yossef, Paul McKenney, Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton,
14 * Steven Rostedt, Peter Zijlstra for suggestions and improvements.
18 #include <linux/context_tracking.h>
19 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
20 #include <linux/sched.h>
21 #include <linux/hardirq.h>
22 #include <linux/export.h>
23 #include <linux/kprobes.h>
26 #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_IDLE
27 noinstr void ct_idle_enter(void)
31 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ct_idle_enter);
33 void ct_idle_exit(void)
37 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ct_idle_exit);
39 noinstr void ct_irq_enter(void)
44 noinstr void ct_irq_exit(void)
49 void ct_irq_enter_irqson(void)
51 rcu_irq_enter_irqson();
54 void ct_irq_exit_irqson(void)
56 rcu_irq_exit_irqson();
58 #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_IDLE */
60 #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER
62 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
63 #include <trace/events/context_tracking.h>
65 DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(context_tracking_key);
66 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking_key);
68 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct context_tracking, context_tracking);
69 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking);
71 static noinstr bool context_tracking_recursion_enter(void)
75 recursion = __this_cpu_inc_return(context_tracking.recursion);
79 WARN_ONCE((recursion < 1), "Invalid context tracking recursion value %d\n", recursion);
80 __this_cpu_dec(context_tracking.recursion);
85 static __always_inline void context_tracking_recursion_exit(void)
87 __this_cpu_dec(context_tracking.recursion);
91 * __ct_user_enter - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is going
92 * to enter user or guest space mode.
94 * This function must be called right before we switch from the kernel
95 * to user or guest space, when it's guaranteed the remaining kernel
96 * instructions to execute won't use any RCU read side critical section
97 * because this function sets RCU in extended quiescent state.
99 void noinstr __ct_user_enter(enum ctx_state state)
101 /* Kernel threads aren't supposed to go to userspace */
102 WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->mm);
104 if (!context_tracking_recursion_enter())
107 if ( __this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) != state) {
108 if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
110 * At this stage, only low level arch entry code remains and
111 * then we'll run in userspace. We can assume there won't be
112 * any RCU read-side critical section until the next call to
113 * user_exit() or ct_irq_enter(). Let's remove RCU's dependency
116 if (state == CONTEXT_USER) {
117 instrumentation_begin();
119 vtime_user_enter(current);
120 instrumentation_end();
125 * Even if context tracking is disabled on this CPU, because it's outside
126 * the full dynticks mask for example, we still have to keep track of the
127 * context transitions and states to prevent inconsistency on those of
129 * If a task triggers an exception in userspace, sleep on the exception
130 * handler and then migrate to another CPU, that new CPU must know where
131 * the exception returns by the time we call exception_exit().
132 * This information can only be provided by the previous CPU when it called
134 * OTOH we can spare the calls to vtime and RCU when context_tracking.active
135 * is false because we know that CPU is not tickless.
137 __this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, state);
139 context_tracking_recursion_exit();
141 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__ct_user_enter);
145 * This function should be noinstr but the below local_irq_restore() is
146 * unsafe because it involves illegal RCU uses through tracing and lockdep.
147 * This is unlikely to be fixed as this function is obsolete. The preferred
148 * way is to call __context_tracking_enter() through user_enter_irqoff()
149 * or context_tracking_guest_enter(). It should be the arch entry code
150 * responsibility to call into context tracking with IRQs disabled.
152 void ct_user_enter(enum ctx_state state)
157 * Some contexts may involve an exception occuring in an irq,
158 * leading to that nesting:
159 * ct_irq_enter() rcu_user_exit() rcu_user_exit() ct_irq_exit()
160 * This would mess up the dyntick_nesting count though. And rcu_irq_*()
161 * helpers are enough to protect RCU uses inside the exception. So
162 * just return immediately if we detect we are in an IRQ.
167 local_irq_save(flags);
168 __ct_user_enter(state);
169 local_irq_restore(flags);
171 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(ct_user_enter);
172 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ct_user_enter);
175 * user_enter_callable() - Unfortunate ASM callable version of user_enter() for
176 * archs that didn't manage to check the context tracking
177 * static key from low level code.
179 * This OBSOLETE function should be noinstr but it unsafely calls
180 * local_irq_restore(), involving illegal RCU uses through tracing and lockdep.
181 * This is unlikely to be fixed as this function is obsolete. The preferred
182 * way is to call user_enter_irqoff(). It should be the arch entry code
183 * responsibility to call into context tracking with IRQs disabled.
185 void user_enter_callable(void)
189 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(user_enter_callable);
192 * __ct_user_exit - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is
193 * exiting user or guest mode and entering the kernel.
195 * This function must be called after we entered the kernel from user or
196 * guest space before any use of RCU read side critical section. This
197 * potentially include any high level kernel code like syscalls, exceptions,
198 * signal handling, etc...
200 * This call supports re-entrancy. This way it can be called from any exception
201 * handler without needing to know if we came from userspace or not.
203 void noinstr __ct_user_exit(enum ctx_state state)
205 if (!context_tracking_recursion_enter())
208 if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) == state) {
209 if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
211 * We are going to run code that may use RCU. Inform
212 * RCU core about that (ie: we may need the tick again).
215 if (state == CONTEXT_USER) {
216 instrumentation_begin();
217 vtime_user_exit(current);
219 instrumentation_end();
222 __this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, CONTEXT_KERNEL);
224 context_tracking_recursion_exit();
226 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__ct_user_exit);
230 * This function should be noinstr but the below local_irq_save() is
231 * unsafe because it involves illegal RCU uses through tracing and lockdep.
232 * This is unlikely to be fixed as this function is obsolete. The preferred
233 * way is to call __context_tracking_exit() through user_exit_irqoff()
234 * or context_tracking_guest_exit(). It should be the arch entry code
235 * responsibility to call into context tracking with IRQs disabled.
237 void ct_user_exit(enum ctx_state state)
244 local_irq_save(flags);
245 __ct_user_exit(state);
246 local_irq_restore(flags);
248 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(ct_user_exit);
249 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ct_user_exit);
252 * user_exit_callable() - Unfortunate ASM callable version of user_exit() for
253 * archs that didn't manage to check the context tracking
254 * static key from low level code.
256 * This OBSOLETE function should be noinstr but it unsafely calls local_irq_save(),
257 * involving illegal RCU uses through tracing and lockdep. This is unlikely
258 * to be fixed as this function is obsolete. The preferred way is to call
259 * user_exit_irqoff(). It should be the arch entry code responsibility to
260 * call into context tracking with IRQs disabled.
262 void user_exit_callable(void)
266 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(user_exit_callable);
268 void __init ct_cpu_track_user(int cpu)
270 static __initdata bool initialized = false;
272 if (!per_cpu(context_tracking.active, cpu)) {
273 per_cpu(context_tracking.active, cpu) = true;
274 static_branch_inc(&context_tracking_key);
280 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_TIF_NOHZ
282 * Set TIF_NOHZ to init/0 and let it propagate to all tasks through fork
283 * This assumes that init is the only task at this early boot stage.
285 set_tsk_thread_flag(&init_task, TIF_NOHZ);
287 WARN_ON_ONCE(!tasklist_empty());
292 #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER_FORCE
293 void __init context_tracking_init(void)
297 for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
298 ct_cpu_track_user(cpu);
302 #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER */