Commit-ID: 0333a209cbf600e980fc55c24878a56f25f48b65 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/0333a209cbf600e980fc55c24878a56f25f48b65 Author: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 12:44:34 -0700 Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> CommitDate: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 10:59:10 +0200
x86/irq, context_tracking: Document how IRQ context tracking works and add an RCU assertion Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e8bdc4ed0193fb2fd130f3d6b7b8023e2ec1ab62.1435952415.git.l...@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/kernel/irq.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c index 88b36648..6233de0 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)) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
