2 * Context tracking: Probe on high level context boundaries such as kernel
3 * and userspace. This includes syscalls and exceptions entry/exit.
5 * This is used by RCU to remove its dependency on the timer tick while a CPU
8 * Started by Frederic Weisbecker:
10 * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc., Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
12 * Many thanks to Gilad Ben-Yossef, Paul McKenney, Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton,
13 * Steven Rostedt, Peter Zijlstra for suggestions and improvements.
17 #include <linux/context_tracking.h>
18 #include <linux/kvm_host.h>
19 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
20 #include <linux/sched.h>
21 #include <linux/hardirq.h>
22 #include <linux/export.h>
24 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct context_tracking, context_tracking) = {
25 #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
31 * user_enter - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is going to
32 * enter userspace mode.
34 * This function must be called right before we switch from the kernel
35 * to userspace, when it's guaranteed the remaining kernel instructions
36 * to execute won't use any RCU read side critical section because this
37 * function sets RCU in extended quiescent state.
44 * Some contexts may involve an exception occuring in an irq,
45 * leading to that nesting:
46 * rcu_irq_enter() rcu_user_exit() rcu_user_exit() rcu_irq_exit()
47 * This would mess up the dyntick_nesting count though. And rcu_irq_*()
48 * helpers are enough to protect RCU uses inside the exception. So
49 * just return immediately if we detect we are in an IRQ.
54 /* Kernel threads aren't supposed to go to userspace */
55 WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->mm);
57 local_irq_save(flags);
58 if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active) &&
59 __this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) != IN_USER) {
61 * At this stage, only low level arch entry code remains and
62 * then we'll run in userspace. We can assume there won't be
63 * any RCU read-side critical section until the next call to
64 * user_exit() or rcu_irq_enter(). Let's remove RCU's dependency
67 vtime_user_enter(current);
69 __this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, IN_USER);
71 local_irq_restore(flags);
76 * user_exit - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is
77 * exiting userspace mode and entering the kernel.
79 * This function must be called after we entered the kernel from userspace
80 * before any use of RCU read side critical section. This potentially include
81 * any high level kernel code like syscalls, exceptions, signal handling, etc...
83 * This call supports re-entrancy. This way it can be called from any exception
84 * handler without needing to know if we came from userspace or not.
93 local_irq_save(flags);
94 if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) == IN_USER) {
96 * We are going to run code that may use RCU. Inform
97 * RCU core about that (ie: we may need the tick again).
100 vtime_user_exit(current);
101 __this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, IN_KERNEL);
103 local_irq_restore(flags);
106 void guest_enter(void)
108 if (vtime_accounting_enabled())
109 vtime_guest_enter(current);
113 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(guest_enter);
115 void guest_exit(void)
117 if (vtime_accounting_enabled())
118 vtime_guest_exit(current);
122 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(guest_exit);
126 * context_tracking_task_switch - context switch the syscall callbacks
127 * @prev: the task that is being switched out
128 * @next: the task that is being switched in
130 * The context tracking uses the syscall slow path to implement its user-kernel
131 * boundaries probes on syscalls. This way it doesn't impact the syscall fast
132 * path on CPUs that don't do context tracking.
134 * But we need to clear the flag on the previous task because it may later
135 * migrate to some CPU that doesn't do the context tracking. As such the TIF
136 * flag may not be desired there.
138 void context_tracking_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev,
139 struct task_struct *next)
141 if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
142 clear_tsk_thread_flag(prev, TIF_NOHZ);
143 set_tsk_thread_flag(next, TIF_NOHZ);