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2021-05-05context_tracking: KVM: Move guest enter/exit wrappers to KVM's domainSean Christopherson1-45/+0
Move the guest enter/exit wrappers to kvm_host.h so that KVM can manage its context tracking vs. vtime accounting without bleeding too many KVM details into the context tracking code. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210505002735.1684165-8-seanjc@google.com
2021-05-05context_tracking: Consolidate guest enter/exit wrappersSean Christopherson1-41/+24
Consolidate the guest enter/exit wrappers, providing and tweaking stubs as needed. This will allow moving the wrappers under KVM without having to bleed #ifdefs into the soon-to-be KVM code. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210505002735.1684165-7-seanjc@google.com
2021-05-05sched/vtime: Move guest enter/exit vtime accounting to vtime.hSean Christopherson1-16/+1
Provide separate helpers for guest enter vtime accounting (in addition to the existing guest exit helpers), and move all vtime accounting helpers to vtime.h where the existing #ifdef infrastructure can be leveraged to better delineate the different types of accounting. This will also allow future cleanups via deduplication of context tracking code. Opportunstically delete the vtime_account_kernel() stub now that all callers are wrapped with CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE=y. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210505002735.1684165-6-seanjc@google.com
2021-05-05context_tracking: Move guest exit vtime accounting to separate helpersWanpeng Li1-6/+16
Provide separate vtime accounting functions for guest exit instead of open coding the logic within the context tracking code. This will allow KVM x86 to handle vtime accounting slightly differently when using tick-based accounting. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210505002735.1684165-3-seanjc@google.com
2021-05-05context_tracking: Move guest exit context tracking to separate helpersWanpeng Li1-1/+8
Provide separate context tracking helpers for guest exit, the standalone helpers will be called separately by KVM x86 in later patches to fix tick-based accounting. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210505002735.1684165-2-seanjc@google.com
2020-11-19context_tracking: Don't implement exception_enter/exit() on ↵Frederic Weisbecker1-2/+4
CONFIG_HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK The typical steps with context tracking are: 1) Task runs in userspace 2) Task enters the kernel (syscall/exception/IRQ) 3) Task switches from context tracking state CONTEXT_USER to CONTEXT_KERNEL (user_exit()) 4) Task does stuff in kernel 5) Task switches from context tracking state CONTEXT_KERNEL to CONTEXT_USER (user_enter()) 6) Task exits the kernel If an exception fires between 5) and 6), the pt_regs and the context tracking disagree on the context of the faulted/trapped instruction. CONTEXT_KERNEL must be set before the exception handler, that's unconditional for those handlers that want to be able to call into schedule(), but CONTEXT_USER must be restored when the exception exits whereas pt_regs tells that we are resuming to kernel space. This can't be fixed with storing the context tracking state in a per-cpu or per-task variable since another exception may fire onto the current one and overwrite the saved state. Also the task can schedule. So it has to be stored in a per task stack. This is how exception_enter()/exception_exit() paper over the problem: 5) Task switches from context tracking state CONTEXT_KERNEL to CONTEXT_USER (user_enter()) 5.1) Exception fires 5.2) prev_state = exception_enter() // save CONTEXT_USER to prev_state // and set CONTEXT_KERNEL 5.3) Exception handler 5.4) exception_enter(prev_state) // restore CONTEXT_USER 5.5) Exception resumes 6) Task exits the kernel The condition to live without exception_enter()/exception_exit() is to forbid exceptions and IRQs between 2) and 3) and between 5) and 6), or if any is allowed to trigger, it won't call into context tracking, eg: NMIs, and it won't schedule. These requirements are met by architectures supporting CONFIG_HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK and those can therefore afford not to implement this hack. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201117151637.259084-3-frederic@kernel.org
2020-07-24compiler.h: Move instrumentation_begin()/end() to new ↵Ingo Molnar1-0/+2
<linux/instrumentation.h> header Linus pointed out that compiler.h - which is a key header that gets included in every single one of the 28,000+ kernel files during a kernel build - was bloated in: 655389666643: ("vmlinux.lds.h: Create section for protection against instrumentation") Linus noted: > I have pulled this, but do we really want to add this to a header file > that is _so_ core that it gets included for basically every single > file built? > > I don't even see those instrumentation_begin/end() things used > anywhere right now. > > It seems excessive. That 53 lines is maybe not a lot, but it pushed > that header file to over 12kB, and while it's mostly comments, it's > extra IO and parsing basically for _every_ single file compiled in the > kernel. > > For what appears to be absolutely zero upside right now, and I really > don't see why this should be in such a core header file! Move these primitives into a new header: <linux/instrumentation.h>, and include that header in the headers that make use of it. Unfortunately one of these headers is asm-generic/bug.h, which does get included in a lot of places, similarly to compiler.h. So the de-bloating effect isn't as good as we'd like it to be - but at least the interfaces are defined separately. No change to functionality intended. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200604071921.GA1361070@gmail.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2020-06-11context_tracking: Ensure that the critical path cannot be instrumentedThomas Gleixner1-3/+3
context tracking lacks a few protection mechanisms against instrumentation: - While the core functions are marked NOKPROBE they lack protection against function tracing which is required as the function entry/exit points can be utilized by BPF. - static functions invoked from the protected functions need to be marked as well as they can be instrumented otherwise. - using plain inline allows the compiler to emit traceable and probable functions. Fix this by marking the functions noinstr and converting the plain inlines to __always_inline. The NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() annotations are removed as the .noinstr.text section is already excluded from being probed. Cures the following objtool warnings: vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: enter_from_user_mode()+0x34: call to __context_tracking_exit() leaves .noinstr.text section vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: prepare_exit_to_usermode()+0x29: call to __context_tracking_enter() leaves .noinstr.text section vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: syscall_return_slowpath()+0x29: call to __context_tracking_enter() leaves .noinstr.text section vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_syscall_64()+0x7f: call to __context_tracking_enter() leaves .noinstr.text section vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_int80_syscall_32()+0x3d: call to __context_tracking_enter() leaves .noinstr.text section vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_fast_syscall_32()+0x9c: call to __context_tracking_enter() leaves .noinstr.text section and generates new ones... Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134340.811520478@linutronix.de
2020-05-19context_tracking: Make guest_enter/exit() .noinstr readyThomas Gleixner1-5/+16
Force inlining of the helpers and mark the instrumentable parts accordingly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134341.672545766@linutronix.de
2020-01-27KVM: remove unused guest_enterAlex Shi1-9/+0
After commit 61bd0f66ff92 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix guest time accounting with VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN"), no one use this function anymore, So better to remove it. Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-10-29sched/vtime: Rename vtime_accounting_cpu_enabled() to ↵Frederic Weisbecker1-2/+2
vtime_accounting_enabled_this_cpu() Standardize the naming on top of the vtime_accounting_enabled_*() base. Also make it clear we are checking the vtime state of the *current* CPU with this function. We'll need to add an API to check that state on remote CPUs as well, so we must disambiguate the naming. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Cc: Yauheni Kaliuta <yauheni.kaliuta@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191016025700.31277-9-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-10-29context_tracking: Rename context_tracking_is_cpu_enabled() to ↵Frederic Weisbecker1-1/+1
context_tracking_enabled_this_cpu() Standardize the naming on top of the context_tracking_enabled_*() base. Also make it clear we are checking the context tracking state of the *current* CPU with this function. We'll need to add an API to check that state on remote CPUs as well, so we must disambiguate the naming. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Cc: Yauheni Kaliuta <yauheni.kaliuta@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191016025700.31277-7-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-10-29context_tracking: Rename context_tracking_is_enabled() => ↵Frederic Weisbecker1-10/+10
context_tracking_enabled() Remove the superfluous "is" in the middle of the name. We want to standardize the naming so that it can be expanded through suffixes: context_tracking_enabled() context_tracking_enabled_cpu() context_tracking_enabled_this_cpu() Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Cc: Yauheni Kaliuta <yauheni.kaliuta@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191016025700.31277-6-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-10-09sched/cputime: Rename vtime_account_system() to vtime_account_kernel()Frederic Weisbecker1-2/+2
vtime_account_system() decides if we need to account the time to the system (__vtime_account_system()) or to the guest (vtime_account_guest()). So this function is a misnomer as we are on a higher level than "system". All we know when we call that function is that we are accounting kernel cputime. Whether it belongs to guest or system time is a lower level detail. Rename this function to vtime_account_kernel(). This will clarify things and avoid too many underscored vtime_account_system() versions. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Cc: Yauheni Kaliuta <yauheni.kaliuta@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191003161745.28464-2-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+1
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-08-02Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds1-4/+34
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini: - ARM: GICv3 ITS emulation and various fixes. Removal of the old VGIC implementation. - s390: support for trapping software breakpoints, nested virtualization (vSIE), the STHYI opcode, initial extensions for CPU model support. - MIPS: support for MIPS64 hosts (32-bit guests only) and lots of cleanups, preliminary to this and the upcoming support for hardware virtualization extensions. - x86: support for execute-only mappings in nested EPT; reduced vmexit latency for TSC deadline timer (by about 30%) on Intel hosts; support for more than 255 vCPUs. - PPC: bugfixes. * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (302 commits) KVM: PPC: Introduce KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM MIPS: Select HAVE_KVM for MIPS64_R{2,6} MIPS: KVM: Reset CP0_PageMask during host TLB flush MIPS: KVM: Fix ptr->int cast via KVM_GUEST_KSEGX() MIPS: KVM: Sign extend MFC0/RDHWR results MIPS: KVM: Fix 64-bit big endian dynamic translation MIPS: KVM: Fail if ebase doesn't fit in CP0_EBase MIPS: KVM: Use 64-bit CP0_EBase when appropriate MIPS: KVM: Set CP0_Status.KX on MIPS64 MIPS: KVM: Make entry code MIPS64 friendly MIPS: KVM: Use kmap instead of CKSEG0ADDR() MIPS: KVM: Use virt_to_phys() to get commpage PFN MIPS: Fix definition of KSEGX() for 64-bit KVM: VMX: Add VMCS to CPU's loaded VMCSs before VMPTRLD kvm: x86: nVMX: maintain internal copy of current VMCS KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Save/restore TM state in H_CEDE KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Pull out TM state save/restore into separate procedures KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Simplify MAPI error handling KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Make vgic_its_cmd_handle_mapi similar to other handlers KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Turn device_id validation into generic ID validation ...
2016-07-10x86/entry: Avoid interrupt flag save and restorePaolo Bonzini1-0/+15
Thanks to all the work that was done by Andy Lutomirski and others, enter_from_user_mode() and prepare_exit_to_usermode() are now called only with interrupts disabled. Let's provide them a version of user_enter()/user_exit() that skips saving and restoring the interrupt flag. On an AMD-based machine I tested this patch on, with force-enabled context tracking, the speed-up in system calls was 90 clock cycles or 6%, measured with the following simple benchmark: #include <sys/signal.h> #include <time.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> unsigned long rdtsc() { unsigned long result; asm volatile("rdtsc; shl $32, %%rdx; mov %%eax, %%eax\n" "or %%rdx, %%rax" : "=a" (result) : : "rdx"); return result; } int main() { unsigned long tsc1, tsc2; int pid = getpid(); int i; tsc1 = rdtsc(); for (i = 0; i < 100000000; i++) kill(pid, SIGWINCH); tsc2 = rdtsc(); printf("%ld\n", tsc2 - tsc1); } Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466434712-31440-2-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-06-28context_tracking: move rcu_virt_note_context_switch out of kvm_host.hPaolo Bonzini1-4/+34
Make kvm_guest_{enter,exit} and __kvm_guest_{enter,exit} trivial wrappers around the code in context_tracking.h. Name the context_tracking.h functions consistently with what those for kernel<->user switch. Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-12-04sched/cputime: Rename vtime_accounting_enabled() to ↵Frederic Weisbecker1-2/+2
vtime_accounting_cpu_enabled() vtime_accounting_enabled() checks if vtime is running on the current CPU and is as such a misnomer. Lets rename it to a function that reflect its locality. We are going to need the current name for a function that tells if vtime runs at all on some CPU. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.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> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447948054-28668-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-11-10context_tracking: avoid irq_save/irq_restore on guest entry and exitPaolo Bonzini1-2/+6
guest_enter and guest_exit must be called with interrupts disabled, since they take the vtime_seqlock with write_seq{lock,unlock}. Therefore, it is not necessary to check for exceptions, nor to save/restore the IRQ state, when context tracking functions are called by guest_enter and guest_exit. Split the body of context_tracking_entry and context_tracking_exit out to __-prefixed functions, and use them from KVM. Rik van Riel has measured this to speed up a tight vmentry/vmexit loop by about 2%. Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Tested-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-11-10context_tracking: remove duplicate enabled checkPaolo Bonzini1-2/+2
All calls to context_tracking_enter and context_tracking_exit are already checking context_tracking_is_enabled, except the context_tracking_user_enter and context_tracking_user_exit functions left in for the benefit of assembly calls. Pull the check up to those functions, by making them simple wrappers around the user_enter and user_exit inline functions. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Tested-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-07-07context_tracking: Add ct_state() and CT_WARN_ON()Andy Lutomirski1-0/+15
This will let us sprinkle sanity checks around the kernel without making too much of a mess. 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: 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/5da41fb2ceb29eac671f427c67040401ba2a1fa0.1435952415.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-07context_tracking: Inherit TIF_NOHZ through forks instead of context switchesFrederic Weisbecker1-10/+0
TIF_NOHZ is used by context_tracking to force syscall slow-path on every task in order to track userspace roundtrips. As such, it must be set on all running tasks. It's currently explicitly inherited through context switches. There is no need to do it in this fast-path though. The flag could simply be set once for all on all tasks, whether they are running or not. Lets do this by setting the flag for the init task on early boot, and let it propagate through fork inheritance. While at it, mark context_tracking_cpu_set() as init code, we only need it at early boot time. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430928266-24888-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-09kvm,rcu,nohz: use RCU extended quiescent state when running KVM guestRik van Riel1-0/+6
The host kernel is not doing anything while the CPU is executing a KVM guest VCPU, so it can be marked as being in an extended quiescent state, identical to that used when running user space code. The only exception to that rule is when the host handles an interrupt, which is already handled by the irq code, which calls rcu_irq_enter and rcu_irq_exit. The guest_enter and guest_exit functions already switch vtime accounting independent of context tracking. Leave those calls where they are, instead of moving them into the context tracking code. Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Will deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2015-03-09context_tracking: Generalize context tracking APIs to support user and guestRik van Riel1-3/+6
Generalize the context tracking APIs to support various nature of contexts. This is performed by splitting out the mechanism from context_tracking_user_enter and context_tracking_user_exit into context_tracking_enter and context_tracking_exit. The nature of the context we track is now detailed in a ctx_state parameter pushed to these APIs, allowing the same functions to not just track kernel <> user space switching, but also kernel <> guest transitions. But leave the old functions in order to avoid breaking ARM, which calls these functions from assembler code, and cannot easily use C enum parameters. Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Will deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2015-03-09context_tracking: Rename context symbols to prepare for transition stateFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+1
Current context tracking symbols are designed to express living state. As such they are prefixed with "IN_": IN_USER, IN_KERNEL. Now we are going to use these symbols to also express state transitions such as context_tracking_enter(IN_USER) or context_tracking_exit(IN_USER). But while the "IN_" prefix works well to express entering a context, it's confusing to depict a context exit: context_tracking_exit(IN_USER) could mean two things: 1) We are exiting the current context to enter user context. 2) We are exiting the user context We want 2) but the reviewer may be confused and understand 1) So lets disambiguate these symbols and rename them to CONTEXT_USER and CONTEXT_KERNEL. Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Will deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-12-02context_tracking: Wrap static key check into more intuitive function nameFrederic Weisbecker1-5/+5
Use a function with a meaningful name to check the global context tracking state. static_key_false() is a bit confusing for reviewers. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-08-14vtime: Optimize full dynticks accounting off case with static keysFrederic Weisbecker1-4/+2
If no CPU is in the full dynticks range, we can avoid the full dynticks cputime accounting through generic vtime along with its overhead and use the traditional tick based accounting instead. Let's do this and nope the off case with static keys. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-08-14context_tracking: Split low level state headersFrederic Weisbecker1-30/+1
We plan to use the context tracking static key on inline vtime APIs. For this we need to include the context tracking headers from those of vtime. However vtime headers need to stay low level because they are included in hardirq.h that mostly contains standalone definitions. But context_tracking.h includes sched.h for a few task_struct references, therefore it wouldn't be sensible to include it from vtime.h To solve this, lets split the context tracking headers and move out the pure state definitions that only require a few low level headers. We can safely include that small part in vtime.h later. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-08-14context_tracking: Optimize context switch off case with static keysFrederic Weisbecker1-2/+9
No need for syscall slowpath if no CPU is full dynticks, rather nop this in this case. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-08-14context_tracking: Optimize guest APIs off case with static keyFrederic Weisbecker1-2/+17
Optimize guest entry/exit APIs with static keys. This minimize the overhead for those who enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL without always using it. Having no range passed to nohz_full= should result in the probes overhead to be minimized. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-08-14context_tracking: Optimize main APIs off case with static keyFrederic Weisbecker1-5/+22
Optimize user and exception entry/exit APIs with static keys. This minimize the overhead for those who enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL without always using it. Having no range passed to nohz_full= should result in the probes to be nopped (at least we hope so...). If this proves not be enough in the long term, we'll need to bring an exception slow path by re-routing the exception handlers. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-08-14context_tracking: Ground setup for static key useFrederic Weisbecker1-0/+10
Prepare for using a static key in the context tracking subsystem. This will help optimizing the off case on its many users: * user_enter, user_exit, exception_enter, exception_exit, guest_enter, guest_exit, vtime_*() Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-08-13nohz: Only enable context tracking on full dynticks CPUsFrederic Weisbecker1-0/+2
The context tracking subsystem has the ability to selectively enable the tracking on any defined subset of CPU. This means that we can define a CPU range that doesn't run the context tracking and another range that does. Now what we want in practice is to enable the tracking on full dynticks CPUs only. In order to perform this, we just need to pass our full dynticks CPU range selection from the full dynticks subsystem to the context tracking. This way we can spare the overhead of RCU user extended quiescent state and vtime maintainance on the CPUs that are outside the full dynticks range. Just keep in mind the raw context tracking itself is still necessary everywhere. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-08-13vtime: Update a few commentsFrederic Weisbecker1-6/+4
Update a stale comment from the old vtime era and document some locking that might be non obvious. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-08-13context_tracing: Fix guest accounting with native vtimeFrederic Weisbecker1-30/+22
1) If context tracking is enabled with native vtime accounting (which combo is useless except for dev testing), we call vtime_guest_enter() and vtime_guest_exit() on host <-> guest switches. But those are stubs in this configurations. As a result, cputime is not correctly flushed on kvm context switches. 2) If context tracking runs but is disabled on some CPUs, those CPUs end up calling __guest_enter/__guest_exit which in turn call vtime_account_system(). We don't want to call this because we run in tick based accounting for these CPUs. Refactor the guest_enter/guest_exit code such that all combinations finally work. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-05-31kvm: Move guest entry/exit APIs to context_trackingFrederic Weisbecker1-0/+35
The kvm_host.h header file doesn't handle well inclusion when archs don't support KVM. This results in build crashes for such archs when they want to implement context tracking because this subsystem includes kvm_host.h in order to implement the guest_enter/exit APIs but it doesn't handle KVM off case. To fix this, move the guest_enter()/guest_exit() declarations and generic implementation to the context tracking headers. These generic APIs actually belong to this subsystem, besides other domains boundary tracking like user_enter() et al. KVM now properly becomes a user of this library, not the other buggy way around. Reported-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Tested-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-03-07context_tracking: Restore correct previous context state on exception exitFrederic Weisbecker1-7/+12
On exception exit, we restore the previous context tracking state based on the regs of the interrupted frame. Iff that frame is in user mode as stated by user_mode() helper, we restore the context tracking user mode. However there is a tiny chunck of low level arch code after we pass through user_enter() and until the CPU eventually resumes userspace. If an exception happens in this tiny area, exception_enter() correctly exits the context tracking user mode but exception_exit() won't restore it because of the value returned by user_mode(regs). As a result we may return to userspace with the wrong context tracking state. To fix this, change exception_enter() to return the context tracking state prior to its call and pass this saved state to exception_exit(). This restores the real context tracking state of the interrupted frame. (May be this patch was suggested to me, I don't recall exactly. If so, sorry for the missing credit). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Mats Liljegren <mats.liljegren@enea.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-03-07context_tracking: Move exception handling to generic codeFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+16
Exceptions handling on context tracking should share common treatment: on entry we exit user mode if the exception triggered in that context. Then on exception exit we return to that previous context. Generalize this to avoid duplication across archs. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Mats Liljegren <mats.liljegren@enea.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-26context_tracking: Export context state for generic vtimeFrederic Weisbecker1-0/+28
Export the context state: whether we run in user / kernel from the context tracking subsystem point of view. This is going to be used by the generic virtual cputime accounting subsystem that is needed to implement the full dynticks. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-11-30context_tracking: New context tracking susbsystemFrederic Weisbecker1-0/+18
Create a new subsystem that probes on kernel boundaries to keep track of the transitions between level contexts with two basic initial contexts: user or kernel. This is an abstraction of some RCU code that use such tracking to implement its userspace extended quiescent state. We need to pull this up from RCU into this new level of indirection because this tracking is also going to be used to implement an "on demand" generic virtual cputime accounting. A necessary step to shutdown the tick while still accounting the cputime. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> [ paulmck: fix whitespace error and email address. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>