This moves us to save the Target Address Register (TAR) a earlier in
__switch_to. It introduces a new function save_tar() to do this.
We need to save the TAR earlier as we will overwrite it in the transactional
memory reclaim/recheckpoint path. We are going to do this in a subsequent
patch which will fix saving the TAR register when it's modified inside a
transaction.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
POWER8 allows the DSCR to be accessed directly from userspace via a new SPR
number 0x3 (Rather than 0x11. DSCR SPR number 0x11 is still used on POWER8 but
like POWER7, is only accessible in HV and OS modes). Currently, we allow this
by setting H/FSCR DSCR bit on boot.
Unfortunately this doesn't work, as the kernel needs to see the DSCR change so
that it knows to no longer restore the system wide version of DSCR on context
switch (ie. to set thread.dscr_inherit).
This clears the H/FSCR DSCR bit initially. If a process then accesses the DSCR
(via SPR 0x3), it'll trap into the kernel where we set thread.dscr_inherit in
facility_unavailable_exception().
We also change _switch() so that we set or clear the H/FSCR DSCR bit based on
the thread.dscr_inherit.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On BookE (Branch taken + Single Step) is as same as Branch Taken
on BookS and in Linux we simulate BookS behavior for BookE as well.
When doing so, in Branch taken handling we want to set DBCR0_IC but
we update the current->thread->dbcr0 and not DBCR0.
Now on 64bit the current->thread.dbcr0 (and other debug registers)
is synchronized ONLY on context switch flow. But after handling
Branch taken in debug exception if we return back to user space
without context switch then single stepping change (DBCR0_ICMP)
does not get written in h/w DBCR0 and Instruction Complete exception
does not happen.
This fixes using ptrace reliably on BookE-PowerPC
lmbench latency test (lat_syscall) Results are (they varies a little
on each run)
1) ./lat_syscall <action> /dev/shm/uImage
action: Open read write stat fstat null
Before: 3.8618 0.2017 0.2851 1.6789 0.2256 0.0856
After: 3.8580 0.2017 0.2851 1.6955 0.2255 0.0856
1) ./lat_syscall -P 2 -N 10 <action> /dev/shm/uImage
action: Open read write stat fstat null
Before: 4.1388 0.2238 0.3066 1.7106 0.2256 0.0856
After: 4.1413 0.2236 0.3062 1.7107 0.2256 0.0856
[ Slightly modified to avoid extra branch in the fast path
on Book3S and fix build on all non-BookE 64-bit -- BenH
]
Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In commit 59affcd I added context switching of more PMU SPRs, because
they are potentially exposed to userspace on Power8. However despite me
being a smart arse in the commit message it's actually not correct. In
particular it interacts badly with a global perf record.
We will have to do something more complicated, but that will have to
wait for 3.11.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On context switch, we should have no prefetch streams leak from one
userspace process to another. This frees up prefetch resources for the
next process.
Based on patch from Milton Miller.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In commit 9353374 "Context switch the new EBB SPRs" we added support for
context switching some new EBB SPRs. However despite four of us signing
off on that patch we missed some. To be fair these are not actually new
SPRs, but they are now potentially user accessible so need to be context
switched.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Pull powerpc fixes from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"This is mostly bug fixes (some of them regressions, some of them I
deemed worth merging now) along with some patches from Li Zhong
hooking up the new context tracking stuff (for the new full NO_HZ)"
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (25 commits)
powerpc: Set show_unhandled_signals to 1 by default
powerpc/perf: Fix setting of "to" addresses for BHRB
powerpc/pmu: Fix order of interpreting BHRB target entries
powerpc/perf: Move BHRB code into CONFIG_PPC64 region
powerpc: select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING for pSeries
powerpc: Use the new schedule_user API on userspace preemption
powerpc: Exit user context on notify resume
powerpc: Exception hooks for context tracking subsystem
powerpc: Syscall hooks for context tracking subsystem
powerpc/booke64: Fix kernel hangs at kernel_dbg_exc
powerpc: Fix irq_set_affinity() return values
powerpc: Provide __bswapdi2
powerpc/powernv: Fix starting of secondary CPUs on OPALv2 and v3
powerpc/powernv: Detect OPAL v3 API version
powerpc: Fix MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low warning again
powerpc: Make CONFIG_RTAS_PROC depend on CONFIG_PROC_FS
powerpc: Bring all threads online prior to migration/hibernation
powerpc/rtas_flash: Fix validate_flash buffer overflow issue
powerpc/kexec: Fix kexec when using VMX optimised memcpy
powerpc: Fix build errors STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS
...
This patch corresponds to
[PATCH] x86: Use the new schedule_user API on userspace preemption
commit 0430499ce9
Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Saw this warning again, and this time from the ret_from_fork path.
It seems we could clear the back chain earlier in copy_thread(), which
could cover both path, and also fix potential lockdep usage in
schedule_tail(), or exception occurred before we clear the back chain.
Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Pull audit changes from Eric Paris:
"Al used to send pull requests every couple of years but he told me to
just start pushing them to you directly.
Our touching outside of core audit code is pretty straight forward. A
couple of interface changes which hit net/. A simple argument bug
calling audit functions in namei.c and the removal of some assembly
branch prediction code on ppc"
* git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit: (31 commits)
audit: fix message spacing printing auid
Revert "audit: move kaudit thread start from auditd registration to kaudit init"
audit: vfs: fix audit_inode call in O_CREAT case of do_last
audit: Make testing for a valid loginuid explicit.
audit: fix event coverage of AUDIT_ANOM_LINK
audit: use spin_lock in audit_receive_msg to process tty logging
audit: do not needlessly take a lock in tty_audit_exit
audit: do not needlessly take a spinlock in copy_signal
audit: add an option to control logging of passwords with pam_tty_audit
audit: use spin_lock_irqsave/restore in audit tty code
helper for some session id stuff
audit: use a consistent audit helper to log lsm information
audit: push loginuid and sessionid processing down
audit: stop pushing loginid, uid, sessionid as arguments
audit: remove the old depricated kernel interface
audit: make validity checking generic
audit: allow checking the type of audit message in the user filter
audit: fix build break when AUDIT_DEBUG == 2
audit: remove duplicate export of audit_enabled
Audit: do not print error when LSMs disabled
...
This context switches the new Event Based Branching (EBB) SPRs. The three new
SPRs are:
- Event Based Branch Handler Register (EBBHR)
- Event Based Branch Return Register (EBBRR)
- Branch Event Status and Control Register (BESCR)
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We are getting low on cpu feature bits. So rather than add a separate bit for
every new Power8 feature, add a bit for arch 2.07 server catagory and use that
instead.
Hijack the value we had for BCTAR, but swap the value with CFAR so that all the
ARCH defines are together.
Note we don't touch CPU_FTR_TM, because it is conditionally enabled if
the kernel is built with TM support.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
A label 0 was missed in the patch a9c4e541 (powerpc/kprobe: Complete
kprobe and migrate exception frame). This will cause the kernel
branch to an undetermined address if there really has a conflict when
updating the thread flags.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-By: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
The current mainline crashes when hitting userspace with the following:
kernel BUG at kernel/auditsc.c:1769!
cpu 0x1: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000023883a60]
pc: c0000000001047a8: .__audit_syscall_entry+0x38/0x130
lr: c00000000000ed64: .do_syscall_trace_enter+0xc4/0x270
sp: c000000023883ce0
msr: 8000000000029032
current = 0xc000000023800000
paca = 0xc00000000f080380 softe: 0 irq_happened: 0x01
pid = 1629, comm = start_udev
kernel BUG at kernel/auditsc.c:1769!
enter ? for help
[c000000023883d80] c00000000000ed64 .do_syscall_trace_enter+0xc4/0x270
[c000000023883e30] c000000000009b08 syscall_dotrace+0xc/0x38
--- Exception: c00 (System Call) at 0000008010ec50dc
Bisecting found the following patch caused it:
commit 44e9309f1f
Author: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
powerpc: Implement PPR save/restore
It was found this patch corrupted r9 when calling
SET_DEFAULT_THREAD_PPR()
Using r10 as a scratch register instead of r9 solved the problem.
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Some distros enable auditing by default which forces us through the
syscall trace path. Remove the static branch prediction in our 64bit
syscall handler and let the hardware do the prediction.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Pull powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"So from the depth of frozen Minnesota, here's the powerpc pull request
for 3.9. It has a few interesting highlights, in addition to the
usual bunch of bug fixes, minor updates, embedded device tree updates
and new boards:
- Hand tuned asm implementation of SHA1 (by Paulus & Michael
Ellerman)
- Support for Doorbell interrupts on Power8 (kind of fast
thread-thread IPIs) by Ian Munsie
- Long overdue cleanup of the way we handle relocation of our open
firmware trampoline (prom_init.c) on 64-bit by Anton Blanchard
- Support for saving/restoring & context switching the PPR (Processor
Priority Register) on server processors that support it. This
allows the kernel to preserve thread priorities established by
userspace. By Haren Myneni.
- DAWR (new watchpoint facility) support on Power8 by Michael Neuling
- Ability to change the DSCR (Data Stream Control Register) which
controls cache prefetching on a running process via ptrace by
Alexey Kardashevskiy
- Support for context switching the TAR register on Power8 (new
branch target register meant to be used by some new specific
userspace perf event interrupt facility which is yet to be enabled)
by Ian Munsie.
- Improve preservation of the CFAR register (which captures the
origin of a branch) on various exception conditions by Paulus.
- Move the Bestcomm DMA driver from arch powerpc to drivers/dma where
it belongs by Philippe De Muyter
- Support for Transactional Memory on Power8 by Michael Neuling
(based on original work by Matt Evans). For those curious about
the feature, the patch contains a pretty good description."
(See commit db8ff90702: "powerpc: Documentation for transactional
memory on powerpc" for the mentioned description added to the file
Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt)
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (140 commits)
powerpc/kexec: Disable hard IRQ before kexec
powerpc/85xx: l2sram - Add compatible string for BSC9131 platform
powerpc/85xx: bsc9131 - Correct typo in SDHC device node
powerpc/e500/qemu-e500: enable coreint
powerpc/mpic: allow coreint to be determined by MPIC version
powerpc/fsl_pci: Store the pci ctlr device ptr in the pci ctlr struct
powerpc/85xx: Board support for ppa8548
powerpc/fsl: remove extraneous DIU platform functions
arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/p1022_ds.c: adjust duplicate test
powerpc: Documentation for transactional memory on powerpc
powerpc: Add transactional memory to pseries and ppc64 defconfigs
powerpc: Add config option for transactional memory
powerpc: Add transactional memory to POWER8 cpu features
powerpc: Add new transactional memory state to the signal context
powerpc: Hook in new transactional memory code
powerpc: Routines for FP/VSX/VMX unavailable during a transaction
powerpc: Add transactional memory unavaliable execption handler
powerpc: Add reclaim and recheckpoint functions for context switching transactional memory processes
powerpc: Add FP/VSX and VMX register load functions for transactional memory
powerpc: Add helper functions for transactional memory context switching
...
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
- scheduler side full-dynticks (user-space execution is undisturbed
and receives no timer IRQs) preparation changes that convert the
cputime accounting code to be full-dynticks ready, from Frederic
Weisbecker.
- Initial sched.h split-up changes, by Clark Williams
- select_idle_sibling() performance improvement by Mike Galbraith:
" 1 tbench pair (worst case) in a 10 core + SMT package:
pre 15.22 MB/sec 1 procs
post 252.01 MB/sec 1 procs "
- sched_rr_get_interval() ABI fix/change. We think this detail is not
used by apps (so it's not an ABI in practice), but lets keep it
under observation.
- misc RT scheduling cleanups, optimizations"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
sched/rt: Add <linux/sched/rt.h> header to <linux/init_task.h>
cputime: Remove irqsave from seqlock readers
sched, powerpc: Fix sched.h split-up build failure
cputime: Restore CPU_ACCOUNTING config defaults for PPC64
sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file
sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice
sched: Move sched.h sysctl bits into separate header
sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() bouncing cow syndrome
sched/rt: Further simplify pick_rt_task()
sched/rt: Do not account zero delta_exec in update_curr_rt()
cputime: Safely read cputime of full dynticks CPUs
kvm: Prepare to add generic guest entry/exit callbacks
cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats
cputime: Allow dynamic switch between tick/virtual based cputime accounting
cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting
cputime: Move default nsecs_to_cputime() to jiffies based cputime file
cputime: Librarize per nsecs resolution cputime definitions
cputime: Avoid multiplication overflow on utime scaling
context_tracking: Export context state for generic vtime
...
Fix up conflict in kernel/context_tracking.c due to comment additions.
Add transactional memory paca scratch register to show_regs. This is useful
for debugging.
Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch adds support for enabling and context switching the Target
Address Register in Power8. The TAR is a new special purpose register
that can be used for computed branches with the bctar[l] (branch
conditional to TAR) instruction in the same manner as the count and link
registers.
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In preempt case current arch_local_irq_restore() from
preempt_schedule_irq() may enable hard interrupt but we really
should disable interrupts when we return from the interrupt,
and so that we don't get interrupted after loading SRR0/1.
Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
If we want to stop the tick further idle, we need to be
able to account the cputime without using the tick.
Virtual based cputime accounting solves that problem by
hooking into kernel/user boundaries.
However implementing CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING require
low level hooks and involves more overhead. But we already
have a generic context tracking subsystem that is required
for RCU needs by archs which plan to shut down the tick
outside idle.
This patch implements a generic virtual based cputime
accounting that relies on these generic kernel/user hooks.
There are some upsides of doing this:
- This requires no arch code to implement CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
if context tracking is already built (already necessary for RCU in full
tickless mode).
- We can rely on the generic context tracking subsystem to dynamically
(de)activate the hooks, so that we can switch anytime between virtual
and tick based accounting. This way we don't have the overhead
of the virtual accounting when the tick is running periodically.
And one downside:
- There is probably more overhead than a native virtual based cputime
accounting. But this relies on hooks that are already set anyway.
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>
[PATCH 6/6] powerpc: Implement PPR save/restore
When the task enters in to kernel space, the user defined priority (PPR)
will be saved in to PACA at the beginning of first level exception
vector and then copy from PACA to thread_info in second level vector.
PPR will be restored from thread_info before exits the kernel space.
P7/P8 temporarily raises the thread priority to higher level during
exception until the program executes HMT_* calls. But it will not modify
PPR register. So we save PPR value whenever some register is available
to use and then calls HMT_MEDIUM to increase the priority. This feature
supports on P7 or later processors.
We save/ restore PPR for all exception vectors except system call entry.
GLIBC will be saving / restore for system calls. So the default PPR
value (3) will be set for the system call exit when the task returned
to the user space.
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
[PATCH 1/6] powerpc: Move branch instruction from ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY to caller
The first instruction in ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY is 'beq' which checks for
exceptions coming from kernel mode. PPR value will be saved immediately after
ACCOUNT_CPU_USER_ENTRY and is also for user level exceptions. So moved this
branch instruction in the caller code.
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch adds the logic to properly handle doorbells that come in when
interrupts have been soft disabled and to replay them when interrupts
are re-enabled:
- masked_##_H##interrupt is modified to leave interrupts enabled when a
doorbell has come in since doorbells are edge sensitive and as such
won't be automatically re-raised.
- __check_irq_replay now tests if a doorbell happened on book3s, and
returns either 0xe80 or 0xa00 depending on whether we are the
hypervisor or not.
- restore_check_irq_replay now tests for the two possible server
doorbell vector numbers to replay.
- __replay_interrupt also adds tests for the two server doorbell vector
numbers, and is modified to use a compare instruction rather than an
andi. on the single bit difference between 0x500 and 0x900.
The last two use a CPU feature section to avoid needlessly testing
against the hypervisor vector if it is not the hypervisor, and vice
versa.
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Pull powerpc update from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"The main highlight is probably some base POWER8 support. There's more
to come such as transactional memory support but that will wait for
the next one.
Overall it's pretty quiet, or rather I've been pretty poor at picking
things up from patchwork and reviewing them this time around and Kumar
no better on the FSL side it seems..."
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (73 commits)
powerpc+of: Rename and fix OF reconfig notifier error inject module
powerpc: mpc5200: Add a3m071 board support
powerpc/512x: don't compile any platform DIU code if the DIU is not enabled
powerpc/mpc52xx: use module_platform_driver macro
powerpc+of: Export of_reconfig_notifier_[register,unregister]
powerpc/dma/raidengine: add raidengine device
powerpc/iommu/fsl: Add PAMU bypass enable register to ccsr_guts struct
powerpc/mpc85xx: Change spin table to cached memory
powerpc/fsl-pci: Add PCI controller ATMU PM support
powerpc/86xx: fsl_pcibios_fixup_bus requires CONFIG_PCI
drivers/virt: the Freescale hypervisor driver doesn't need to check MSR[GS]
powerpc/85xx: p1022ds: Use NULL instead of 0 for pointers
powerpc: Disable relocation on exceptions when kexecing
powerpc: Enable relocation on during exceptions at boot
powerpc: Move get_longbusy_msecs into hvcall.h and remove duplicate function
powerpc: Add wrappers to enable/disable relocation on exceptions
powerpc: Add set_mode hcall
powerpc: Setup relocation on exceptions for bare metal systems
powerpc: Move initial mfspr LPCR out of __init_LPCR
powerpc: Add relocation on exception vector handlers
...
kernel_thread() callbacks are *not* in modules and are not going to
be there. And it's not even read in ppc32 ret_from_kernel_thread(),
so no need to bother with it there either.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull pile 2 of execve and kernel_thread unification work from Al Viro:
"Stuff in there: kernel_thread/kernel_execve/sys_execve conversions for
several more architectures plus assorted signal fixes and cleanups.
There'll be more (in particular, real fixes for the alpha
do_notify_resume() irq mess)..."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (43 commits)
alpha: don't open-code trace_report_syscall_{enter,exit}
Uninclude linux/freezer.h
m32r: trim masks
avr32: trim masks
tile: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_frame
microblaze: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_rt_frame()
mn10300: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_frame()
frv: no need to raise SIGTRAP in setup_frame()
x86: get rid of duplicate code in case of CONFIG_VM86
unicore32: remove pointless test
h8300: trim _TIF_WORK_MASK
parisc: decide whether to go to slow path (tracesys) based on thread flags
parisc: don't bother looping in do_signal()
parisc: fix double restarts
bury the rest of TIF_IRET
sanitize tsk_is_polling()
bury _TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
unicore32: unobfuscate _TIF_WORK_MASK
mips: NOTIFY_RESUME is not needed in TIF masks
mips: merge the identical "return from syscall" per-ABI code
...
Conflicts:
arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
the only non-obvious part is that current_pt_regs() is really needed
here - task_pt_regs() is NULL for kernel threads; it's OK for ptrace
uses (the thing task_pt_regs() is intended for), but not for us.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We can't emulate stwu since that may corrupt current exception stack.
So we will have to do real store operation in the exception return code.
Firstly we'll allocate a trampoline exception frame below the kprobed
function stack and copy the current exception frame to the trampoline.
Then we can do this real store operation to implement 'stwu', and reroute
the trampoline frame to r1 to complete this exception migration.
Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
During a context switch we always restore the per thread DSCR value.
If we aren't doing explicit DSCR management
(ie thread.dscr_inherit == 0) and the default DSCR changed while
the process has been sleeping we end up with the wrong value.
Check thread.dscr_inherit and select the default DSCR or per thread
DSCR as required.
This was found with the following test case, when running with
more threads than CPUs (ie forcing context switching):
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_default_test.c
With the four patches applied I can run a combination of all
test cases successfully at the same time:
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_default_test.chttp://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_explicit_test.chttp://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_inherit_test.c
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 3.0+
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
mtmsrd is an expensive instruction, we save a few cycles by
doing it once instead of twice.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In entry_64.S version of ret_from_except_lite, you'll notice that
in the !preempt case, after we've checked MSR_PR we test for any
TIF flag in _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK to decide whether to go to do_work
or not. However, in the preempt case, we do a convoluted trick to
test SIGPENDING only if PR was set and always test NEED_RESCHED ...
but we forget to test any other bit of _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK !!! So
that means that with preempt, we completely fail to test for things
like single step, syscall tracing, etc...
This should be fixed as the following path:
- Test PR. If not set, go to resume_kernel, else continue.
- If go resume_kernel, to do that original do_work.
- If else, then always test for _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK to decide to do
that original user_work, else restore directly.
Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
So we have another case of paca->irq_happened getting out of
sync with the HW irq state. This can happen when a perfmon
interrupt occurs while soft disabled, as it will return to a
soft disabled but hard enabled context while leaving a stale
PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS flag set.
This patch fixes it, and also adds a test for the condition
of those flags being out of sync in arch_local_irq_restore()
when CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS is enabled.
This helps catching those gremlins faster (and so far I
can't seem see any anymore, so that's good news).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We had a case where we could turn on hard interrupts while
leaving the PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS bit set in the PACA. This can
in turn cause a BUG_ON() to hit in __check_irq_replay() due
to interrupt state getting out of sync.
The assembly code was also way too convoluted. Instead, we
now leave it to the C code to do the right thing which ends
up being smaller and more readable.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
At the moment system call entry looks like:
crclr so
...
mfcr r9
...
std r9,_CCR(r1)
commit bd19c8994a ([POWERPC] system call micro optimisation) put
some space between the crclr and mfcr in order to avoid a stall.
There is still a stall seen between the mfcr and std. We can avoid
the crclr by doing it in a GPR with rlwinm which gives us more room
to better schedule the sequence.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The count register is volatile so we don't need to preserve it.
Store zero to the entry in the exception frame.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The XER is a volatile register so there is no need to save and restore
it over a system call - zero it out in the exception stack frame
instead.
This should fix a 5 cycle stall of the mfxer/std seen on POWER7.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
syscall_dotrace_cont and syscall_error_cont tend to complicate perf
output so make them local.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The current implementation of lazy interrupts handling has some
issues that this tries to address.
We don't do the various workarounds we need to do when re-enabling
interrupts in some cases such as when returning from an interrupt
and thus we may still lose or get delayed decrementer or doorbell
interrupts.
The current scheme also makes it much harder to handle the external
"edge" interrupts provided by some BookE processors when using the
EPR facility (External Proxy) and the Freescale Hypervisor.
Additionally, we tend to keep interrupts hard disabled in a number
of cases, such as decrementer interrupts, external interrupts, or
when a masked decrementer interrupt is pending. This is sub-optimal.
This is an attempt at fixing it all in one go by reworking the way
we do the lazy interrupt disabling from the ground up.
The base idea is to replace the "hard_enabled" field with a
"irq_happened" field in which we store a bit mask of what interrupt
occurred while soft-disabled.
When re-enabling, either via arch_local_irq_restore() or when returning
from an interrupt, we can now decide what to do by testing bits in that
field.
We then implement replaying of the missed interrupts either by
re-using the existing exception frame (in exception exit case) or via
the creation of a new one from an assembly trampoline (in the
arch_local_irq_enable case).
This removes the need to play with the decrementer to try to create
fake interrupts, among others.
In addition, this adds a few refinements:
- We no longer hard disable decrementer interrupts that occur
while soft-disabled. We now simply bump the decrementer back to max
(on BookS) or leave it stopped (on BookE) and continue with hard interrupts
enabled, which means that we'll potentially get better sample quality from
performance monitor interrupts.
- Timer, decrementer and doorbell interrupts now hard-enable
shortly after removing the source of the interrupt, which means
they no longer run entirely hard disabled. Again, this will improve
perf sample quality.
- On Book3E 64-bit, we now make the performance monitor interrupt
act as an NMI like Book3S (the necessary C code for that to work
appear to already be present in the FSL perf code, notably calling
nmi_enter instead of irq_enter). (This also fixes a bug where BookE
perfmon interrupts could clobber r14 ... oops)
- We could make "masked" decrementer interrupts act as NMIs when doing
timer-based perf sampling to improve the sample quality.
Signed-off-by-yet: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
---
v2:
- Add hard-enable to decrementer, timer and doorbells
- Fix CR clobber in masked irq handling on BookE
- Make embedded perf interrupt act as an NMI
- Add a PACA_HAPPENED_EE_EDGE for use by FSL if they want
to retrigger an interrupt without preventing hard-enable
v3:
- Fix or vs. ori bug on Book3E
- Fix enabling of interrupts for some exceptions on Book3E
v4:
- Fix resend of doorbells on return from interrupt on Book3E
v5:
- Rebased on top of my latest series, which involves some significant
rework of some aspects of the patch.
v6:
- 32-bit compile fix
- more compile fixes with various .config combos
- factor out the asm code to soft-disable interrupts
- remove the C wrapper around preempt_schedule_irq
v7:
- Fix a bug with hard irq state tracking on native power7
On 64-bit, the mfmsr instruction can be quite slow, slower
than loading a field from the cache-hot PACA, which happens
to already contain the value we want in most cases.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We unconditionally hard enable interrupts. This is unnecessary as
syscalls are expected to always be called with interrupts enabled.
While at it, we add a WARN_ON if that is not the case and
CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS is enabled (we don't want to add overhead
to the fast path when this is not set though).
Thus let's remove the enabling (and associated irq tracing) from
the syscall entry path. Also on Book3S, replace a few mfmsr
instructions with loads of PACAMSR from the PACA, which should be
faster & schedule better.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This removes the various bits of assembly in the kernel entry,
exception handling and SLB management code that were specific
to running under the legacy iSeries hypervisor which is no
longer supported.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
