[PATCH 1/2] powerpc: Allow perf_counters to access user memory at interrupt time
Paul Mackerras
paulus at samba.org
Sat Jun 27 15:30:14 EST 2009
This provides a mechanism to allow the perf_counters code to access
user memory in a PMU interrupt routine on a 64-bit kernel. Such an
access can cause a SLB miss interrupt and/or a MMU hash table miss
interrupt.
An SLB miss interrupt on a user address will update the slb_cache and
slb_cache_ptr fields in the paca. This is OK except in the case where
a PMU interrupt occurs in switch_slb, which also accesses those fields.
To prevent this, we hard-disable interrupts in switch_slb. Interrupts
are already soft-disabled in switch-slb, and will get hard-enabled
when they get soft-enabled later.
If a MMU hashtable miss interrupt occurs, normally we would call
hash_page to look up the Linux PTE for the address and create a HPTE.
However, hash_page is fairly complex and takes some locks, so to
avoid the possibility of deadlock, we add a flag to the paca to
indicate to the MMU hashtable miss handler that it should not call
hash_page but instead treat it like a bad access that will get
reported up through the exception table mechanism. The PMU interrupt
code should then set this flag (get_paca()->in_pmu_nmi) and use
__get_user_inatomic to read user memory. If there is no HPTE for
the address, __get_user_inatomic will return -EFAULT.
On a 32-bit processor, there is no SLB. The 32-bit hash_page appears
to be safe to call in an interrupt handler since we don't do soft
disabling of interrupts on 32-bit, and the only lock that hash_page
takes is the mmu_hash_lock, which is always taken with interrupts
hard-disabled.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h | 3 ++-
arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 ++
arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c | 10 +++++++++-
4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h
index c8a3cbf..17b29b1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h
@@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ struct paca_struct {
u8 soft_enabled; /* irq soft-enable flag */
u8 hard_enabled; /* set if irqs are enabled in MSR */
u8 io_sync; /* writel() needs spin_unlock sync */
- u8 perf_counter_pending; /* PM interrupt while soft-disabled */
+ u8 perf_counter_pending; /* perf_counter stuff needs wakeup */
+ u8 in_pmu_nmi; /* PM interrupt while soft-disabled */
/* Stuff for accurate time accounting */
u64 user_time; /* accumulated usermode TB ticks */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
index 561b646..5347780 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ int main(void)
DEFINE(PACASOFTIRQEN, offsetof(struct paca_struct, soft_enabled));
DEFINE(PACAHARDIRQEN, offsetof(struct paca_struct, hard_enabled));
DEFINE(PACAPERFPEND, offsetof(struct paca_struct, perf_counter_pending));
+ DEFINE(PACAPERFNMI, offsetof(struct paca_struct, in_pmu_nmi));
DEFINE(PACACONTEXTID, offsetof(struct paca_struct, context.id));
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_MM_SLICES
DEFINE(PACALOWSLICESPSIZE, offsetof(struct paca_struct,
@@ -398,6 +399,7 @@ int main(void)
DEFINE(VCPU_TIMING_LAST_ENTER_TBL, offsetof(struct kvm_vcpu,
arch.timing_last_enter.tv32.tbl));
#endif
+ DEFINE(SIGSEGV, SIGSEGV);
return 0;
}
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
index eb89811..02d96b0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
@@ -722,6 +722,12 @@ _STATIC(do_hash_page)
std r3,_DAR(r1)
std r4,_DSISR(r1)
+#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS
+ lbz r0,PACAPERFNMI(r13)
+ cmpwi r0,0
+ bne 77f /* if we don't want to hash_page now */
+#endif /* CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS */
+
andis. r0,r4,0xa450 /* weird error? */
bne- handle_page_fault /* if not, try to insert a HPTE */
BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
@@ -833,6 +839,21 @@ handle_page_fault:
bl .low_hash_fault
b .ret_from_except
+#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS
+/*
+ * We come here as a result of a DSI when accessing memory (possibly
+ * user memory) inside a PMU interrupt that occurred while interrupts
+ * were soft-disabled, so we just want to invoke the exception handler
+ * for the access, or panic if there isn't a handler.
+ */
+77: bl .save_nvgprs
+ mr r4,r3
+ addi r3,r1,STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD
+ li r5,SIGSEGV
+ bl .bad_page_fault
+ b .ret_from_except
+#endif
+
/* here we have a segment miss */
do_ste_alloc:
bl .ste_allocate /* try to insert stab entry */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
index 3b52c80..ebfb8df 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
@@ -187,12 +187,20 @@ static inline int esids_match(unsigned long addr1, unsigned long addr2)
/* Flush all user entries from the segment table of the current processor. */
void switch_slb(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
{
- unsigned long offset = get_paca()->slb_cache_ptr;
+ unsigned long offset;
unsigned long slbie_data = 0;
unsigned long pc = KSTK_EIP(tsk);
unsigned long stack = KSTK_ESP(tsk);
unsigned long unmapped_base;
+ /*
+ * We need interrupts hard-disabled here, not just soft-disabled,
+ * so that a PMU interrupt can't occur, which might try to access
+ * user memory (to get a stack trace) and possible cause an SLB miss
+ * which would update the slb_cache/slb_cache_ptr fields in the PACA.
+ */
+ hard_irq_disable();
+ offset = get_paca()->slb_cache_ptr;
if (!cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_NO_SLBIE_B) &&
offset <= SLB_CACHE_ENTRIES) {
int i;
--
1.6.0.4
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