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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 */
WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->mm);
if (!context_tracking_recursion_enter())
return;
if ( __this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) != state) {
if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
/*
* At this stage, only low level arch entry code remains and
* then we'll run in userspace. We can assume there won't be
* any RCU read-side critical section until the next call to
* user_exit() or rcu_irq_enter(). Let's remove RCU's dependency
* on the tick.
*/
if (state == CONTEXT_USER) {
trace_user_enter(0);
vtime_user_enter(current);
}
rcu_user_enter();
}
/*
* Even if context tracking is disabled on this CPU, because it's outside
* the full dynticks mask for example, we still have to keep track of the
* context transitions and states to prevent inconsistency on those of
* other CPUs.
* If a task triggers an exception in userspace, sleep on the exception
* handler and then migrate to another CPU, that new CPU must know where
* the exception returns by the time we call exception_exit().
* This information can only be provided by the previous CPU when it called