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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2015-07-03 22:44:34 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-07-07 11:59:10 +0300 |
| commit | 0333a209cbf600e980fc55c24878a56f25f48b65 (patch) | |
| tree | c059b02ee45e7adc68084df40c6292016ae8213c /arch | |
| parent | 06a7b36c7bd932e60997bedbae32b3d8e6722281 (diff) | |
| download | linux-0333a209cbf600e980fc55c24878a56f25f48b65.tar.xz | |
x86/irq, context_tracking: Document how IRQ context tracking works and add an RCU assertion
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e8bdc4ed0193fb2fd130f3d6b7b8023e2ec1ab62.1435952415.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/irq.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c index 88b366487b0e..6233de046c08 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c @@ -216,8 +216,23 @@ __visible unsigned int __irq_entry do_IRQ(struct pt_regs *regs) unsigned vector = ~regs->orig_ax; unsigned irq; + /* + * NB: Unlike exception entries, IRQ entries do not reliably + * handle context tracking in the low-level entry code. This is + * because syscall entries execute briefly with IRQs on before + * updating context tracking state, so we can take an IRQ from + * kernel mode with CONTEXT_USER. The low-level entry code only + * updates the context if we came from user mode, so we won't + * switch to CONTEXT_KERNEL. We'll fix that once the syscall + * code is cleaned up enough that we can cleanly defer enabling + * IRQs. + */ + entering_irq(); + /* entering_irq() tells RCU that we're not quiescent. Check it. */ + rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_is_watching(), "IRQ failed to wake up RCU"); + irq = __this_cpu_read(vector_irq[vector]); if (!handle_irq(irq, regs)) { |