From 0333a209cbf600e980fc55c24878a56f25f48b65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 12:44:34 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86/irq, context_tracking: Document how IRQ context tracking works and add an RCU assertion Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e8bdc4ed0193fb2fd130f3d6b7b8023e2ec1ab62.1435952415.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- 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 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)) { -- 2.20.1