The conversion of the hotplug locking to a percpu rwsem unearthed lock
ordering issues all over the place.
The jump_label code has two issues:
1) Nested get_online_cpus() invocations
2) Ordering problems vs. the cpus rwsem and the jump_label_mutex
To cure these, the following lock order has been established;
cpus_rwsem -> jump_label_lock -> text_mutex
Even if not all architectures need protection against CPU hotplug, taking
cpus_rwsem before jump_label_lock is now mandatory in code pathes which
actually modify code and therefor need text_mutex protection.
Move the get_online_cpus() invocations into the core jump label code and
establish the proper lock order where required.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524081549.025830817@linutronix.de
and small optimizations.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"This release has no new tracing features, just clean ups, minor fixes
and small optimizations"
* tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (25 commits)
tracing: Remove outdated ring buffer comment
tracing/probes: Fix a warning message to show correct maximum length
tracing: Fix return value check in trace_benchmark_reg()
tracing: Use modern function declaration
jump_label: Reduce the size of struct static_key
tracing/probe: Show subsystem name in messages
tracing/hwlat: Update old comment about migration
timers: Make flags output in the timer_start tracepoint useful
tracing: Have traceprobe_probes_write() not access userspace unnecessarily
tracing: Have COMM event filter key be treated as a string
ftrace: Have set_graph_function handle multiple functions in one write
ftrace: Do not hold references of ftrace_graph_{notrace_}hash out of graph_lock
tracing: Reset parser->buffer to allow multiple "puts"
ftrace: Have set_graph_functions handle write with RDWR
ftrace: Reset fgd->hash in ftrace_graph_write()
ftrace: Replace (void *)1 with a meaningful macro name FTRACE_GRAPH_EMPTY
ftrace: Create a slight optimization on searching the ftrace_hash
tracing: Add ftrace_hash_key() helper function
ftrace: Convert graph filter to use hash tables
ftrace: Expose ftrace_hash_empty and ftrace_lookup_ip
...
The static_key->next field goes mostly unused. The field is used for
associating module uses with a static key. Most uses of struct static_key
define a static key in the core kernel and make use of it entirely within
the core kernel, or define the static key in a module and make use of it
only from within that module. In fact, of the ~3,000 static keys defined,
I found only about 5 or so that did not fit this pattern.
Thus, we can remove the static_key->next field entirely and overload
the static_key->entries field. That is, when all the static_key uses
are contained within the same module, static_key->entries continues
to point to those uses. However, if the static_key uses are not contained
within the module where the static_key is defined, then we allocate a
struct static_key_mod, store a pointer to the uses within that
struct static_key_mod, and have the static key point at the static_key_mod.
This does incur some extra memory usage when a static_key is used in a
module that does not define it, but since there are only a handful of such
cases there is a net savings.
In order to identify if the static_key->entries pointer contains a
struct static_key_mod or a struct jump_entry pointer, bit 1 of
static_key->entries is set to 1 if it points to a struct static_key_mod and
is 0 if it points to a struct jump_entry. We were already using bit 0 in a
similar way to store the initial value of the static_key. This does mean
that allocations of struct static_key_mod and that the struct jump_entry
tables need to be at least 4-byte aligned in memory. As far as I can tell
all arches meet this criteria.
For my .config, the patch increased the text by 778 bytes, but reduced
the data + bss size by 14912, for a net savings of 14,134 bytes.
text data bss dec hex filename
8092427 5016512 790528 13899467 d416cb vmlinux.pre
8093205 5001600 790528 13885333 d3df95 vmlinux.post
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486154544-4321-1-git-send-email-jbaron@akamai.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Modules that use static_key_deferred need a way to synchronize with
any delayed work that is still pending when the module is unloaded.
Introduce static_key_deferred_flush() which flushes any pending
jump label updates.
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Fixes:
- Fix early access to cpu_spec relocation from Benjamin Herrenschmidt
- Fix incorrect event codes in power9-event-list from Madhavan Srinivasan
- Move register_process_table() out of ppc_md from Michael Ellerman
Use jump_label for [cpu|mmu]_has_feature() from Aneesh Kumar K.V, Kevin Hao and Michael Ellerman:
- Add mmu_early_init_devtree() from Michael Ellerman
- Move disable_radix handling into mmu_early_init_devtree() from Michael Ellerman
- Do hash device tree scanning earlier from Michael Ellerman
- Do radix device tree scanning earlier from Michael Ellerman
- Do feature patching before MMU init from Michael Ellerman
- Check features don't change after patching from Michael Ellerman
- Make MMU_FTR_RADIX a MMU family feature from Aneesh Kumar K.V
- Convert mmu_has_feature() to returning bool from Michael Ellerman
- Convert cpu_has_feature() to returning bool from Michael Ellerman
- Define radix_enabled() in one place & use static inline from Michael Ellerman
- Add early_[cpu|mmu]_has_feature() from Michael Ellerman
- Convert early cpu/mmu feature check to use the new helpers from Aneesh Kumar K.V
- jump_label: Make it possible for arches to invoke jump_label_init() earlier from Kevin Hao
- Call jump_label_init() in apply_feature_fixups() from Aneesh Kumar K.V
- Remove mfvtb() from Kevin Hao
- Move cpu_has_feature() to a separate file from Kevin Hao
- Add kconfig option to use jump labels for cpu/mmu_has_feature() from Michael Ellerman
- Add option to use jump label for cpu_has_feature() from Kevin Hao
- Add option to use jump label for mmu_has_feature() from Kevin Hao
- Catch usage of cpu/mmu_has_feature() before jump label init from Aneesh Kumar K.V
- Annotate jump label assembly from Michael Ellerman
TLB flush enhancements from Aneesh Kumar K.V:
- radix: Implement tlb mmu gather flush efficiently
- Add helper for finding SLBE LLP encoding
- Use hugetlb flush functions
- Drop multiple definition of mm_is_core_local
- radix: Add tlb flush of THP ptes
- radix: Rename function and drop unused arg
- radix/hugetlb: Add helper for finding page size
- hugetlb: Add flush_hugetlb_tlb_range
- remove flush_tlb_page_nohash
Add new ptrace regsets from Anshuman Khandual and Simon Guo:
- elf: Add powerpc specific core note sections
- Add the function flush_tmregs_to_thread
- Enable in transaction NT_PRFPREG ptrace requests
- Enable in transaction NT_PPC_VMX ptrace requests
- Enable in transaction NT_PPC_VSX ptrace requests
- Adapt gpr32_get, gpr32_set functions for transaction
- Enable support for NT_PPC_CGPR
- Enable support for NT_PPC_CFPR
- Enable support for NT_PPC_CVMX
- Enable support for NT_PPC_CVSX
- Enable support for TM SPR state
- Enable NT_PPC_TM_CTAR, NT_PPC_TM_CPPR, NT_PPC_TM_CDSCR
- Enable support for NT_PPPC_TAR, NT_PPC_PPR, NT_PPC_DSCR
- Enable support for EBB registers
- Enable support for Performance Monitor registers
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Merge tag 'powerpc-4.8-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull more powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"These were delayed for various reasons, so I let them sit in next a
bit longer, rather than including them in my first pull request.
Fixes:
- Fix early access to cpu_spec relocation from Benjamin Herrenschmidt
- Fix incorrect event codes in power9-event-list from Madhavan Srinivasan
- Move register_process_table() out of ppc_md from Michael Ellerman
Use jump_label use for [cpu|mmu]_has_feature():
- Add mmu_early_init_devtree() from Michael Ellerman
- Move disable_radix handling into mmu_early_init_devtree() from Michael Ellerman
- Do hash device tree scanning earlier from Michael Ellerman
- Do radix device tree scanning earlier from Michael Ellerman
- Do feature patching before MMU init from Michael Ellerman
- Check features don't change after patching from Michael Ellerman
- Make MMU_FTR_RADIX a MMU family feature from Aneesh Kumar K.V
- Convert mmu_has_feature() to returning bool from Michael Ellerman
- Convert cpu_has_feature() to returning bool from Michael Ellerman
- Define radix_enabled() in one place & use static inline from Michael Ellerman
- Add early_[cpu|mmu]_has_feature() from Michael Ellerman
- Convert early cpu/mmu feature check to use the new helpers from Aneesh Kumar K.V
- jump_label: Make it possible for arches to invoke jump_label_init() earlier from Kevin Hao
- Call jump_label_init() in apply_feature_fixups() from Aneesh Kumar K.V
- Remove mfvtb() from Kevin Hao
- Move cpu_has_feature() to a separate file from Kevin Hao
- Add kconfig option to use jump labels for cpu/mmu_has_feature() from Michael Ellerman
- Add option to use jump label for cpu_has_feature() from Kevin Hao
- Add option to use jump label for mmu_has_feature() from Kevin Hao
- Catch usage of cpu/mmu_has_feature() before jump label init from Aneesh Kumar K.V
- Annotate jump label assembly from Michael Ellerman
TLB flush enhancements from Aneesh Kumar K.V:
- radix: Implement tlb mmu gather flush efficiently
- Add helper for finding SLBE LLP encoding
- Use hugetlb flush functions
- Drop multiple definition of mm_is_core_local
- radix: Add tlb flush of THP ptes
- radix: Rename function and drop unused arg
- radix/hugetlb: Add helper for finding page size
- hugetlb: Add flush_hugetlb_tlb_range
- remove flush_tlb_page_nohash
Add new ptrace regsets from Anshuman Khandual and Simon Guo:
- elf: Add powerpc specific core note sections
- Add the function flush_tmregs_to_thread
- Enable in transaction NT_PRFPREG ptrace requests
- Enable in transaction NT_PPC_VMX ptrace requests
- Enable in transaction NT_PPC_VSX ptrace requests
- Adapt gpr32_get, gpr32_set functions for transaction
- Enable support for NT_PPC_CGPR
- Enable support for NT_PPC_CFPR
- Enable support for NT_PPC_CVMX
- Enable support for NT_PPC_CVSX
- Enable support for TM SPR state
- Enable NT_PPC_TM_CTAR, NT_PPC_TM_CPPR, NT_PPC_TM_CDSCR
- Enable support for NT_PPPC_TAR, NT_PPC_PPR, NT_PPC_DSCR
- Enable support for EBB registers
- Enable support for Performance Monitor registers"
* tag 'powerpc-4.8-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (48 commits)
powerpc/mm: Move register_process_table() out of ppc_md
powerpc/perf: Fix incorrect event codes in power9-event-list
powerpc/32: Fix early access to cpu_spec relocation
powerpc/ptrace: Enable support for Performance Monitor registers
powerpc/ptrace: Enable support for EBB registers
powerpc/ptrace: Enable support for NT_PPPC_TAR, NT_PPC_PPR, NT_PPC_DSCR
powerpc/ptrace: Enable NT_PPC_TM_CTAR, NT_PPC_TM_CPPR, NT_PPC_TM_CDSCR
powerpc/ptrace: Enable support for TM SPR state
powerpc/ptrace: Enable support for NT_PPC_CVSX
powerpc/ptrace: Enable support for NT_PPC_CVMX
powerpc/ptrace: Enable support for NT_PPC_CFPR
powerpc/ptrace: Enable support for NT_PPC_CGPR
powerpc/ptrace: Adapt gpr32_get, gpr32_set functions for transaction
powerpc/ptrace: Enable in transaction NT_PPC_VSX ptrace requests
powerpc/ptrace: Enable in transaction NT_PPC_VMX ptrace requests
powerpc/ptrace: Enable in transaction NT_PRFPREG ptrace requests
powerpc/process: Add the function flush_tmregs_to_thread
elf: Add powerpc specific core note sections
powerpc/mm: remove flush_tlb_page_nohash
powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Add flush_hugetlb_tlb_range
...
Only interesting thing here is Jessica's patch to add ro_after_init support
to modules. The rest are all trivia.
Cheers,
Rusty.
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Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
"The only interesting thing here is Jessica's patch to add
ro_after_init support to modules. The rest are all trivia"
* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
extable.h: add stddef.h so "NULL" definition is not implicit
modules: add ro_after_init support
jump_label: disable preemption around __module_text_address().
exceptions: fork exception table content from module.h into extable.h
modules: Add kernel parameter to blacklist modules
module: Do a WARN_ON_ONCE() for assert module mutex not held
Documentation/module-signing.txt: Note need for version info if reusing a key
module: Invalidate signatures on force-loaded modules
module: Issue warnings when tainting kernel
module: fix redundant test.
module: fix noreturn attribute for __module_put_and_exit()
The current jump_label.h includes bug.h for things such as WARN_ON().
This makes the header problematic for inclusion by kernel.h or any
headers that kernel.h includes, since bug.h includes kernel.h (circular
dependency). The inclusion of atomic.h is similarly problematic. Thus,
this should make jump_label.h 'includable' from most places.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7060ce35ddd0d20b33bf170685e6b0fab816bdf2.1467837322.git.jbaron@akamai.com
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Steven reported a warning caused by not holding module_mutex or
rcu_read_lock_sched: his backtrace was corrupted but a quick audit
found this possible cause. It's wrong anyway...
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Some arches (powerpc at least) would like to invoke jump_label_init()
much earlier in boot. So check static_key_initialized in order to make
sure this function runs only once.
LGTM-by: Ingo (http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=144049104329961&w=2)
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The locking tree was busier in this cycle than the usual pattern - a
couple of major projects happened to coincide.
The main changes are:
- implement the atomic_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}() API natively
across all SMP architectures (Peter Zijlstra)
- add atomic_fetch_{inc/dec}() as well, using the generic primitives
(Davidlohr Bueso)
- optimize various aspects of rwsems (Jason Low, Davidlohr Bueso,
Waiman Long)
- optimize smp_cond_load_acquire() on arm64 and implement LSE based
atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,andnot,or,xor}{,_relaxed,_acquire,_release}()
on arm64 (Will Deacon)
- introduce smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep() and fix various barrier
mis-uses and bugs (Peter Zijlstra)
- after discovering ancient spin_unlock_wait() barrier bugs in its
implementation and usage, strengthen its semantics and update/fix
usage sites (Peter Zijlstra)
- optimize mutex_trylock() fastpath (Peter Zijlstra)
- ... misc fixes and cleanups"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (67 commits)
locking/atomic: Introduce inc/dec variants for the atomic_fetch_$op() API
locking/barriers, arch/arm64: Implement LDXR+WFE based smp_cond_load_acquire()
locking/static_keys: Fix non static symbol Sparse warning
locking/qspinlock: Use __this_cpu_dec() instead of full-blown this_cpu_dec()
locking/atomic, arch/tile: Fix tilepro build
locking/atomic, arch/m68k: Remove comment
locking/atomic, arch/arc: Fix build
locking/Documentation: Clarify limited control-dependency scope
locking/atomic, arch/rwsem: Employ atomic_long_fetch_add()
locking/atomic, arch/qrwlock: Employ atomic_fetch_add_acquire()
locking/atomic, arch/mips: Convert to _relaxed atomics
locking/atomic, arch/alpha: Convert to _relaxed atomics
locking/atomic: Remove the deprecated atomic_{set,clear}_mask() functions
locking/atomic: Remove linux/atomic.h:atomic_fetch_or()
locking/atomic: Implement atomic{,64,_long}_fetch_{add,sub,and,andnot,or,xor}{,_relaxed,_acquire,_release}()
locking/atomic: Fix atomic64_relaxed() bits
locking/atomic, arch/xtensa: Implement atomic_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
locking/atomic, arch/x86: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
locking/atomic, arch/tile: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
locking/atomic, arch/sparc: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
...
Fix the following sparse warnings:
kernel/jump_label.c:473:23: warning:
symbol 'jump_label_module_nb' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466183980-8903-1-git-send-email-weiyj_lk@163.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The following scenario is possible:
CPU 1 CPU 2
static_key_slow_inc()
atomic_inc_not_zero()
-> key.enabled == 0, no increment
jump_label_lock()
atomic_inc_return()
-> key.enabled == 1 now
static_key_slow_inc()
atomic_inc_not_zero()
-> key.enabled == 1, inc to 2
return
** static key is wrong!
jump_label_update()
jump_label_unlock()
Testing the static key at the point marked by (**) will follow the
wrong path for jumps that have not been patched yet. This can
actually happen when creating many KVM virtual machines with userspace
LAPIC emulation; just run several copies of the following program:
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <linux/kvm.h>
int main(void)
{
for (;;) {
int kvmfd = open("/dev/kvm", O_RDONLY);
int vmfd = ioctl(kvmfd, KVM_CREATE_VM, 0);
close(ioctl(vmfd, KVM_CREATE_VCPU, 1));
close(vmfd);
close(kvmfd);
}
return 0;
}
Every KVM_CREATE_VCPU ioctl will attempt a static_key_slow_inc() call.
The static key's purpose is to skip NULL pointer checks and indeed one
of the processes eventually dereferences NULL.
As explained in the commit that introduced the bug:
706249c222 ("locking/static_keys: Rework update logic")
jump_label_update() needs key.enabled to be true. The solution adopted
here is to temporarily make key.enabled == -1, and use go down the
slow path when key.enabled <= 0.
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.3+
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 706249c222 ("locking/static_keys: Rework update logic")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466527937-69798-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
[ Small stylistic edits to the changelog and the code. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
There were still a number of references to my old Red Hat email
address in the kernel source. Remove these while keeping the
Red Hat copyright notices intact.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add a little selftest that validates all combinations.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
There are various problems and short-comings with the current
static_key interface:
- static_key_{true,false}() read like a branch depending on the key
value, instead of the actual likely/unlikely branch depending on
init value.
- static_key_{true,false}() are, as stated above, tied to the
static_key init values STATIC_KEY_INIT_{TRUE,FALSE}.
- we're limited to the 2 (out of 4) possible options that compile to
a default NOP because that's what our arch_static_branch() assembly
emits.
So provide a new static_key interface:
DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(name);
DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(name);
Which define a key of different types with an initial true/false
value.
Then allow:
static_branch_likely()
static_branch_unlikely()
to take a key of either type and emit the right instruction for the
case.
This means adding a second arch_static_branch_jump() assembly helper
which emits a JMP per default.
In order to determine the right instruction for the right state,
encode the branch type in the LSB of jump_entry::key.
This is the final step in removing the naming confusion that has led to
a stream of avoidable bugs such as:
a833581e37 ("x86, perf: Fix static_key bug in load_mm_cr4()")
... but it also allows new static key combinations that will give us
performance enhancements in the subsequent patches.
Tested-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> # arm
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> # ppc
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> # s390
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Instead of spreading the branch_default logic all over the place,
concentrate it into the one jump_label_type() function.
This does mean we need to actually increment/decrement the enabled
count _before_ calling the update path, otherwise jump_label_type()
will not see the right state.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Avoid some casting with a helper, also prepares the way for
overloading the LSB of jump_entry::key.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Rename the JUMP_LABEL_TYPE_* macros to be JUMP_TYPE_* and move the
inline helpers into kernel/jump_label.c, since that's the only place
they're ever used.
Also rename the helpers where it's all about static keys.
This is the second step in removing the naming confusion that has led to
a stream of avoidable bugs such as:
a833581e37 ("x86, perf: Fix static_key bug in load_mm_cr4()")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Since we've already stepped away from ENABLE is a JMP and DISABLE is a
NOP with the branch_default bits, and are going to make it even worse,
rename it to make it all clearer.
This way we don't mix multiple levels of logic attributes, but have a
plain 'physical' name for what the current instruction patching status
of a jump label is.
This is a first step in removing the naming confusion that has led to
a stream of avoidable bugs such as:
a833581e37 ("x86, perf: Fix static_key bug in load_mm_cr4()")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
[ Beefed up the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Usage of the static key primitives to toggle a branch must not be used
before jump_label_init() is called from init/main.c. jump_label_init
reorganizes and wires up the jump_entries so usage before that could
have unforeseen consequences.
Following primitives are now checked for correct use:
* static_key_slow_inc
* static_key_slow_dec
* static_key_slow_dec_deferred
* jump_label_rate_limit
The x86 architecture already checks this by testing if the default_nop
was already replaced with an optimal nop or with a branch instruction. It
will panic then. Other architectures don't check for this.
Because we need to relax this check for the x86 arch to allow code to
transition from default_nop to the enabled state and other architectures
did not check for this at all this patch introduces checking on the
static_key primitives in a non-arch dependent manner.
All checked functions are considered slow-path so the additional check
does no harm to performance.
The warnings are best observed with earlyprintk.
Based on a patch from Andi Kleen.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit b202952075 ("perf, core: Rate limit
perf_sched_events jump_label patching") introduced rate limiting
for jump label disabling. The changes were made in the jump label code
in order to be more widely available and to keep things tidier. This is
all fine, except now jump_label.h includes linux/workqueue.h, which
makes it impossible to include jump_label.h from anything that
workqueue.h needs. For example, it's now impossible to include
jump_label.h from asm/spinlock.h, which is done in proposed
pv-ticketlock patches. This patch splits out the rate limiting related
changes from jump_label.h into a new file, jump_label_ratelimit.h, to
resolve the issue.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1376058122-8248-10-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
In the jump label enabled case, calling static_key_enabled()
results in a function call. The function returns the results of
a compare, so it really doesn't need the overhead of a full
function call. Let's make it 'static inline' for both the jump
label enabled and disabled cases.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201202281849.q1SIn1p2023270@int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
So here's a boot tested patch on top of Jason's series that does
all the cleanups I talked about and turns jump labels into a
more intuitive to use facility. It should also address the
various misconceptions and confusions that surround jump labels.
Typical usage scenarios:
#include <linux/static_key.h>
struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_TRUE;
if (static_key_false(&key))
do unlikely code
else
do likely code
Or:
if (static_key_true(&key))
do likely code
else
do unlikely code
The static key is modified via:
static_key_slow_inc(&key);
...
static_key_slow_dec(&key);
The 'slow' prefix makes it abundantly clear that this is an
expensive operation.
I've updated all in-kernel code to use this everywhere. Note
that I (intentionally) have not pushed through the rename
blindly through to the lowest levels: the actual jump-label
patching arch facility should be named like that, so we want to
decouple jump labels from the static-key facility a bit.
On non-jump-label enabled architectures static keys default to
likely()/unlikely() branches.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120222085809.GA26397@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Export these two symbols, they will be used by KVM mmu audit
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Provide two initializers for jump_label_key that initialize it enabled
or disabled. Also modify all jump_label code to allow for jump_labels to be
initialized enabled.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-p40e3yj21b68y03z1yv825e7@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x4c71): Section mismatch in
reference from the function arch_jump_label_transform_static() to the
function .init.text:text_poke_early()
The function arch_jump_label_transform_static() references
the function __init text_poke_early().
This is often because arch_jump_label_transform_static lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of text_poke_early is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9lefe89mrvurrwpqw5h8xm8z@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
jump_lable patching is very expensive operation that involves pausing all
cpus. The patching of perf_sched_events jump_label is easily controllable
from userspace by unprivileged user.
When te user runs a loop like this:
"while true; do perf stat -e cycles true; done"
... the performance of my test application that just increments a counter
for one second drops by 4%.
This is on a 16 cpu box with my test application using only one of
them. An impact on a real server doing real work will be worse.
Performance of KVM PMU drops nearly 50% due to jump_lable for "perf
record" since KVM PMU implementation creates and destroys perf event
frequently.
This patch introduces a way to rate limit jump_label patching and uses
it to fix the above problem.
I believe that as jump_label use will spread the problem will become more
common and thus solving it in a generic code is appropriate. Also fixing
it in the perf code would result in moving jump_label accounting logic to
perf code with all the ifdefs in case of JUMP_LABEL=n kernel. With this
patch all details are nicely hidden inside jump_label code.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111127155909.GO2557@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If cpu A calls jump_label_inc() just after atomic_add_return() is
called by cpu B, atomic_inc_not_zero() will return value greater then
zero and jump_label_inc() will return to a caller before jump_label_update()
finishes its job on cpu B.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111018175551.GH17571@redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If cpu A calls jump_label_inc() just after atomic_add_return() is
called by cpu B, atomic_inc_not_zero() will return value greater then
zero and jump_label_inc() will return to a caller before jump_label_update()
finishes its job on cpu B.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111018175551.GH17571@redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Initialize jump_labels much, much earlier, so they're available for use
during system setup.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
When updating a newly loaded module, the code is definitely not yet
executing on any processor, so it can be updated with no need for any
heavyweight synchronization.
This patch adds arch_jump_label_static() which is implemented as
arch_jump_label_transform() by default, but architectures can override
it if it avoids, say, a call to stop_machine().
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
If a key has been enabled before jump_label_init() is called, don't
nop it out.
This removes arch_jump_label_text_poke_early() (which can only nop
out a site) and uses arch_jump_label_transform() instead.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
The jump labels entries for modules do not stop at __stop__jump_table,
but after mod->jump_entries + mod_num_jump_entries.
By checking the wrong end point, module trace events never get enabled.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E00038B.2060404@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When iterating the jump_label entries array (core or modules),
the __jump_label_update function peeks over the last entry.
The reason is that the end of the for loop depends on the key
value of the processed entry. Thus when going through the
last array entry, we will touch the memory behind the array
limit.
This bug probably will never be triggered, since most likely the
memory behind the jump_label entries will be accesable and the
entry->key will be different than the expected value.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110510104346.GC1899@jolsa.brq.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Introduce:
static __always_inline bool static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key);
instead of the old JUMP_LABEL(key, label) macro.
In this way, jump labels become really easy to use:
Define:
struct jump_label_key jump_key;
Can be used as:
if (static_branch(&jump_key))
do unlikely code
enable/disale via:
jump_label_inc(&jump_key);
jump_label_dec(&jump_key);
that's it!
For the jump labels disabled case, the static_branch() becomes an
atomic_read(), and jump_label_inc()/dec() are simply atomic_inc(),
atomic_dec() operations. We show testing results for this change below.
Thanks to H. Peter Anvin for suggesting the 'static_branch()' construct.
Since we now require a 'struct jump_label_key *key', we can store a pointer into
the jump table addresses. In this way, we can enable/disable jump labels, in
basically constant time. This change allows us to completely remove the previous
hashtable scheme. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for this re-write.
Testing:
I ran a series of 'tbench 20' runs 5 times (with reboots) for 3
configurations, where tracepoints were disabled.
jump label configured in
avg: 815.6
jump label *not* configured in (using atomic reads)
avg: 800.1
jump label *not* configured in (regular reads)
avg: 803.4
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110316212947.GA8792@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Some archs do not need to do anything special for jump labels on
startup (like MIPS). This patch adds a weak function stub for
arch_jump_label_text_poke_early();
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <1286218615-24011-2-git-send-email-ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101015201037.703989993@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
register_kprobe() downs the 'text_mutex' and then calls
jump_label_text_reserved(), which downs the 'jump_label_mutex'.
However, the jump label code takes those mutexes in the reverse
order.
Fix by requiring the caller of jump_label_text_reserved() to do
the jump label locking via the newly added: jump_label_lock(),
jump_label_unlock(). Currently, kprobes is the only user
of jump_label_text_reserved().
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <759032c48d5e30c27f0bba003d09bffa8e9f28bb.1285965957.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Jump label uses is_module_text_address() to ensure that the module
__init sections are valid before updating them. However, between the
check for a valid module __init section and the subsequent jump
label update, the module's __init section could be freed out from under
us.
We fix this potential race by adding a notifier callback to the
MODULE_STATE_LIVE state. This notifier is called *after* the __init
section has been run but before it is going to be freed. In the
callback, the jump label code zeros the key value for any __init jump
code within the module, and we add a check for a non-zero key value when
we update jump labels. In this way we require no additional data
structures.
Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for pointing out this race condition.
Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <c6f037b7598777668025ceedd9294212fd95fa34.1285965957.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
[ Renamed remove_module_init() to remove_jump_label_module_init()
as suggested by Masami Hiramatsu. ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a jump_label_text_reserved(void *start, void *end), so that other
pieces of code that want to modify kernel text, can first verify that
jump label has not reserved the instruction.
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <06236663a3a7b1c1f13576bb9eccb6d9c17b7bfe.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline
assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto'
statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently
be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which
might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed.
Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for.
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <ee8b3595967989fdaf84e698dc7447d315ce972a.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
[ cleaned up some formating ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
