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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2009-08-17 15:17:54 +1000
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2009-08-18 14:48:43 +1000
commit9c1e105238c474d19905af504f2e7f42d4f71f9e (patch)
tree39406fa1c36e5894f2eb48a7f5fbb787736118a4 /arch/powerpc/kernel
parent1660e9d3d04b6c636b7171bf6c08ac7b82a7de79 (diff)
powerpc: Allow perf_counters to access user memory at interrupt time
This provides a mechanism to allow the perf_counters code to access user memory in a PMU interrupt routine. Such an access can cause various kinds of interrupt: SLB miss, MMU hash table miss, segment table miss, or TLB miss, depending on the processor. This commit only deals with 64-bit classic/server processors, which use an MMU hash table. 32-bit processors are already able to access user memory at interrupt time. Since we don't soft-disable on 32-bit, we avoid the possibility of reentering hash_page or the TLB miss handlers, since they run with interrupts disabled. On 64-bit processors, 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 at this point, and will get hard-enabled when they get soft-enabled later. This also reworks slb_flush_and_rebolt: to avoid hard-disabling twice, and to make sure that it clears the slb_cache_ptr when called from other callers than switch_slb, the existing routine is renamed to __slb_flush_and_rebolt, which is called by switch_slb and the new version of slb_flush_and_rebolt. Similarly, switch_stab (used on POWER3 and RS64 processors) gets a hard_irq_disable() to protect the per-cpu variables used there and in ste_allocate. 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 check the preemption count to see if we are in a (pseudo-)NMI handler, and if so, we don't call hash_page but instead treat it like a bad access that will get reported up through the exception table mechanism. An interrupt whose handler runs even though the interrupt occurred when soft-disabled (such as the PMU interrupt) is considered a pseudo-NMI handler, which should use nmi_enter()/nmi_exit() rather than irq_enter()/irq_exit(). Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S19
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
index 561b6465231..197b15646ee 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ int main(void)
DEFINE(MMCONTEXTID, offsetof(struct mm_struct, context.id));
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
DEFINE(AUDITCONTEXT, offsetof(struct task_struct, audit_context));
+ DEFINE(SIGSEGV, SIGSEGV);
+ DEFINE(NMI_MASK, NMI_MASK);
#else
DEFINE(THREAD_INFO, offsetof(struct task_struct, stack));
#endif /* CONFIG_PPC64 */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
index eb898112e57..8ac85e08ffa 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
@@ -729,6 +729,11 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
bne- do_ste_alloc /* If so handle it */
END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_SLB)
+ clrrdi r11,r1,THREAD_SHIFT
+ lwz r0,TI_PREEMPT(r11) /* If we're in an "NMI" */
+ andis. r0,r0,NMI_MASK@h /* (i.e. an irq when soft-disabled) */
+ bne 77f /* then don't call hash_page now */
+
/*
* On iSeries, we soft-disable interrupts here, then
* hard-enable interrupts so that the hash_page code can spin on
@@ -833,6 +838,20 @@ handle_page_fault:
bl .low_hash_fault
b .ret_from_except
+/*
+ * We come here as a result of a DSI at a point where we don't want
+ * to call hash_page, such as when we are accessing memory (possibly
+ * user memory) inside a PMU interrupt that occurred while interrupts
+ * were soft-disabled. We 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
+
/* here we have a segment miss */
do_ste_alloc:
bl .ste_allocate /* try to insert stab entry */