xref: /linux-6.15/kernel/context_tracking.c (revision 6f0e6c15)
1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2 /*
3  * Context tracking: Probe on high level context boundaries such as kernel
4  * and userspace. This includes syscalls and exceptions entry/exit.
5  *
6  * This is used by RCU to remove its dependency on the timer tick while a CPU
7  * runs in userspace.
8  *
9  *  Started by Frederic Weisbecker:
10  *
11  * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc., Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
12  *
13  * Many thanks to Gilad Ben-Yossef, Paul McKenney, Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton,
14  * Steven Rostedt, Peter Zijlstra for suggestions and improvements.
15  *
16  */
17 
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>
24 
25 
26 #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_IDLE
27 noinstr void ct_idle_enter(void)
28 {
29 	rcu_idle_enter();
30 }
31 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ct_idle_enter);
32 
33 void ct_idle_exit(void)
34 {
35 	rcu_idle_exit();
36 }
37 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ct_idle_exit);
38 
39 noinstr void ct_irq_enter(void)
40 {
41 	rcu_irq_enter();
42 }
43 
44 noinstr void ct_irq_exit(void)
45 {
46 	rcu_irq_exit();
47 }
48 
49 void ct_irq_enter_irqson(void)
50 {
51 	rcu_irq_enter_irqson();
52 }
53 
54 void ct_irq_exit_irqson(void)
55 {
56 	rcu_irq_exit_irqson();
57 }
58 #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_IDLE */
59 
60 #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER
61 
62 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
63 #include <trace/events/context_tracking.h>
64 
65 DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(context_tracking_key);
66 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking_key);
67 
68 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct context_tracking, context_tracking);
69 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking);
70 
71 static noinstr bool context_tracking_recursion_enter(void)
72 {
73 	int recursion;
74 
75 	recursion = __this_cpu_inc_return(context_tracking.recursion);
76 	if (recursion == 1)
77 		return true;
78 
79 	WARN_ONCE((recursion < 1), "Invalid context tracking recursion value %d\n", recursion);
80 	__this_cpu_dec(context_tracking.recursion);
81 
82 	return false;
83 }
84 
85 static __always_inline void context_tracking_recursion_exit(void)
86 {
87 	__this_cpu_dec(context_tracking.recursion);
88 }
89 
90 /**
91  * __ct_user_enter - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is going
92  *		     to enter user or guest space mode.
93  *
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.
98  */
99 void noinstr __ct_user_enter(enum ctx_state state)
100 {
101 	/* Kernel threads aren't supposed to go to userspace */
102 	WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->mm);
103 
104 	if (!context_tracking_recursion_enter())
105 		return;
106 
107 	if ( __this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) != state) {
108 		if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
109 			/*
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
114 			 * on the tick.
115 			 */
116 			if (state == CONTEXT_USER) {
117 				instrumentation_begin();
118 				trace_user_enter(0);
119 				vtime_user_enter(current);
120 				instrumentation_end();
121 			}
122 			rcu_user_enter();
123 		}
124 		/*
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
128 		 * other CPUs.
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
133 		 * exception_enter().
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.
136 		 */
137 		__this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, state);
138 	}
139 	context_tracking_recursion_exit();
140 }
141 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__ct_user_enter);
142 
143 /*
144  * OBSOLETE:
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.
151  */
152 void ct_user_enter(enum ctx_state state)
153 {
154 	unsigned long flags;
155 
156 	/*
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.
163 	 */
164 	if (in_interrupt())
165 		return;
166 
167 	local_irq_save(flags);
168 	__ct_user_enter(state);
169 	local_irq_restore(flags);
170 }
171 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(ct_user_enter);
172 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ct_user_enter);
173 
174 /**
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.
178  *
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.
184  */
185 void user_enter_callable(void)
186 {
187 	user_enter();
188 }
189 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(user_enter_callable);
190 
191 /**
192  * __ct_user_exit - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is
193  *		    exiting user or guest mode and entering the kernel.
194  *
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...
199  *
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.
202  */
203 void noinstr __ct_user_exit(enum ctx_state state)
204 {
205 	if (!context_tracking_recursion_enter())
206 		return;
207 
208 	if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) == state) {
209 		if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
210 			/*
211 			 * We are going to run code that may use RCU. Inform
212 			 * RCU core about that (ie: we may need the tick again).
213 			 */
214 			rcu_user_exit();
215 			if (state == CONTEXT_USER) {
216 				instrumentation_begin();
217 				vtime_user_exit(current);
218 				trace_user_exit(0);
219 				instrumentation_end();
220 			}
221 		}
222 		__this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, CONTEXT_KERNEL);
223 	}
224 	context_tracking_recursion_exit();
225 }
226 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__ct_user_exit);
227 
228 /*
229  * OBSOLETE:
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.
236  */
237 void ct_user_exit(enum ctx_state state)
238 {
239 	unsigned long flags;
240 
241 	if (in_interrupt())
242 		return;
243 
244 	local_irq_save(flags);
245 	__ct_user_exit(state);
246 	local_irq_restore(flags);
247 }
248 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(ct_user_exit);
249 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ct_user_exit);
250 
251 /**
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.
255  *
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.
261  */
262 void user_exit_callable(void)
263 {
264 	user_exit();
265 }
266 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(user_exit_callable);
267 
268 void __init ct_cpu_track_user(int cpu)
269 {
270 	static __initdata bool initialized = false;
271 
272 	if (!per_cpu(context_tracking.active, cpu)) {
273 		per_cpu(context_tracking.active, cpu) = true;
274 		static_branch_inc(&context_tracking_key);
275 	}
276 
277 	if (initialized)
278 		return;
279 
280 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_TIF_NOHZ
281 	/*
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.
284 	 */
285 	set_tsk_thread_flag(&init_task, TIF_NOHZ);
286 #endif
287 	WARN_ON_ONCE(!tasklist_empty());
288 
289 	initialized = true;
290 }
291 
292 #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER_FORCE
293 void __init context_tracking_init(void)
294 {
295 	int cpu;
296 
297 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
298 		ct_cpu_track_user(cpu);
299 }
300 #endif
301 
302 #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER */
303