Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752842AbaKUXHN (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:07:13 -0500 Received: from mail-la0-f43.google.com ([209.85.215.43]:61299 "EHLO mail-la0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751677AbaKUXHL (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:07:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20141121225508.GV5050@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <7665538633a500255d7da9ca5985547f6a2aa191.1416604491.git.luto@amacapital.net> <20141121220704.GU5050@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20141121225508.GV5050@linux.vnet.ibm.com> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:06:48 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] x86, traps: Track entry into and exit from IST context To: Paul McKenney Cc: Borislav Petkov , X86 ML , Linus Torvalds , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Peter Zijlstra , Oleg Nesterov , Tony Luck , Andi Kleen , Josh Triplett , =?UTF-8?B?RnLDqWTDqXJpYyBXZWlzYmVja2Vy?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 02:19:17PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Paul E. McKenney >> wrote: >> > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 01:32:50PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> > We currently pretend that IST context is like standard exception >> >> > context, but this is incorrect. IST entries from userspace are like >> >> > standard exceptions except that they use per-cpu stacks, so they are >> >> > atomic. IST entries from kernel space are like NMIs from RCU's >> >> > perspective -- they are not quiescent states even if they >> >> > interrupted the kernel during a quiescent state. >> >> > >> >> > Add and use ist_enter and ist_exit to track IST context. Even >> >> > though x86_32 has no IST stacks, we track these interrupts the same >> >> > way. >> >> >> >> I should add: >> >> >> >> I have no idea why RCU read-side critical sections are safe inside >> >> __do_page_fault today. It's guarded by exception_enter(), but that >> >> doesn't do anything if context tracking is off, and context tracking >> >> is usually off. What am I missing here? >> > >> > Ah! There are three cases: >> > >> > 1. Context tracking is off on a non-idle CPU. In this case, RCU is >> > still paying attention to CPUs running in both userspace and in >> > the kernel. So if a page fault happens, RCU will be set up to >> > notice any RCU read-side critical sections. >> > >> > 2. Context tracking is on on a non-idle CPU. In this case, RCU >> > might well be ignoring userspace execution: NO_HZ_FULL and >> > all that. However, as you pointed out, in this case the >> > context-tracking code lets RCU know that we have entered the >> > kernel, which means that RCU will again be paying attention to >> > RCU read-side critical sections. >> > >> > 3. The CPU is idle. In this case, RCU is ignoring the CPU, so >> > if we take a page fault when context tracking is off, life >> > will be hard. But the kernel is not supposed to take page >> > faults in the idle loop, so this is not a problem. >> >> I guess so, as long as there are really no page faults in the idle loop. > > As far as I know, there are not. If there are, someone needs to let > me know! ;-) > >> There are, however, machine checks in the idle loop, and maybe kprobes >> (haven't checked), so I think this patch might fix real bugs. > > If you can get ISTs from the idle loop, then the patch is needed. > >> > Just out of curiosity... Can an NMI occur in IST context? If it can, >> > I need to make rcu_nmi_enter() and rcu_nmi_exit() deal properly with >> > nested calls. >> >> Yes, and vice versa. That code looked like it handled nesting >> correctly, but I wasn't entirely sure. > > It currently does not, please see below patch. Are you able to test > nesting? It would be really cool if you could do so -- I have no > way to test this patch. I can try. It's sort of easy -- I'll put an int3 into do_nmi and add a fixup to avoid crashing. What should I look for? Should I try to force full nohz on and assert something? I don't really know how to make full nohz work. > >> Also, just to make sure: are we okay if rcu_nmi_enter() is called >> before exception_enter if context tracking is on and we came directly >> from userspace? > > If I understand correctly, this will result in context tracking invoking > rcu_user_enter(), which will result in the rcu_dynticks counter having an > odd value. In that case, rcu_nmi_enter() will notice that RCU is already > paying attention to this CPU via its check of atomic_read(&rdtp->dynticks) > & 0x1), and will thus just return. The matching rcu_nmi_exit() will > notice that the nesting count is zero, and will also just return. > > Thus, everything works in that case. > > In contrast, if rcu_nmi_enter() was invoked from the idle loop, it > would see that RCU is not paying attention to this CPU and that the > NMI nesting depth (which rcu_nmi_enter() increments) used to be zero. > It would then atomically increment rtdp->dynticks, forcing RCU to start > paying attention to this CPU. The matching rcu_nmi_exit() will see > that the nesting count was non-zero, but became zero when decremented. > This will cause rcu_nmi_exit() to atomically increment rtdp->dynticks, > which will tell RCU to stop paying attention to this CPU. > > Thanx, Paul > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > rcu: Make rcu_nmi_enter() handle nesting > > Andy Lutomirski is introducing ISTs into x86, which from RCU's > viewpoint are NMIs. Because ISTs and NMIs can nest, rcu_nmi_enter() > and rcu_nmi_exit() must now correctly handle nesting. As luck would > have it, rcu_nmi_exit() handles nesting but rcu_nmi_enter() does not. > This patch therefore makes rcu_nmi_enter() handle nesting. Thanks. Should I add this to v5 of my series? --Andy > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney > > diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c > index 8749f43f3f05..875421aff6e3 100644 > --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c > +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c > @@ -770,7 +770,8 @@ void rcu_nmi_enter(void) > if (rdtp->dynticks_nmi_nesting == 0 && > (atomic_read(&rdtp->dynticks) & 0x1)) > return; > - rdtp->dynticks_nmi_nesting++; > + if (rdtp->dynticks_nmi_nesting++ != 0) > + return; /* Nested NMI/IST/whatever. */ > smp_mb__before_atomic(); /* Force delay from prior write. */ > atomic_inc(&rdtp->dynticks); > /* CPUs seeing atomic_inc() must see later RCU read-side crit sects */ > -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/