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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.
*
*/
DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(context_tracking_enabled);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking_enabled);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct context_tracking, context_tracking);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking);
static bool context_tracking_recursion_enter(void)
{
int recursion;
recursion = __this_cpu_inc_return(context_tracking.recursion);
if (recursion == 1)
return true;
WARN_ONCE((recursion < 1), "Invalid context tracking recursion value %d\n", recursion);
__this_cpu_dec(context_tracking.recursion);
return false;
}
static void context_tracking_recursion_exit(void)
{
__this_cpu_dec(context_tracking.recursion);
}
/**
* context_tracking_enter - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is going
* enter user or guest space mode.
*
* This function must be called right before we switch from the kernel
* to user or guest space, 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 __context_tracking_enter(enum ctx_state state)
{
/* Kernel threads aren't supposed to go to userspace */