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From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v7 17/42] powerpc/64s: slb comment update
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 23:08:27 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210130130852.2952424-18-npiggin@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210130130852.2952424-1-npiggin@gmail.com>

This makes a small improvement to the description of the SLB interrupt
environment. Move the memory access restrictions into one paragraph,
and the interrupt restrictions into the next rather than mix them.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/slb.c | 28 +++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/slb.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/slb.c
index c581548b533f..14c62b685f0c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/slb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/slb.c
@@ -825,19 +825,21 @@ long do_slb_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/*
-	 * SLB kernel faults must be very careful not to touch anything
-	 * that is not bolted. E.g., PACA and global variables are okay,
-	 * mm->context stuff is not.
-	 *
-	 * SLB user faults can access all of kernel memory, but must be
-	 * careful not to touch things like IRQ state because it is not
-	 * "reconciled" here. The difficulty is that we must use
-	 * fast_exception_return to return from kernel SLB faults without
-	 * looking at possible non-bolted memory. We could test user vs
-	 * kernel faults in the interrupt handler asm and do a full fault,
-	 * reconcile, ret_from_except for user faults which would make them
-	 * first class kernel code. But for performance it's probably nicer
-	 * if they go via fast_exception_return too.
+	 * SLB kernel faults must be very careful not to touch anything that is
+	 * not bolted. E.g., PACA and global variables are okay, mm->context
+	 * stuff is not. SLB user faults may access all of memory (and induce
+	 * one recursive SLB kernel fault), so the kernel fault must not
+	 * trample on the user fault state at those points.
+	 */
+
+	/*
+	 * The interrupt state is not reconciled, for performance, so that
+	 * fast_interrupt_return can be used. The handler must not touch local
+	 * irq state, or schedule. We could test for usermode and upgrade to a
+	 * normal process context (synchronous) interrupt for those, which
+	 * would make them first-class kernel code and able to be traced and
+	 * instrumented, although performance would suffer a bit, it would
+	 * probably be a good tradeoff.
 	 */
 	if (id >= LINEAR_MAP_REGION_ID) {
 		long err;
-- 
2.23.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-30 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-30 13:08 [PATCH v7 00/42] powerpc: interrupt wrappers Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 01/42] powerpc/64s: interrupt exit improve bounding of interrupt recursion Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 02/42] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Context tracking exit guest context before enabling irqs Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 03/42] powerpc/32s: move DABR match out of handle_page_fault Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 04/42] powerpc/64s: " Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 05/42] powerpc/64s: move the hash fault handling logic to C Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 06/42] powerpc: remove arguments from fault handler functions Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 07/42] powerpc/fsl_booke/32: CacheLockingException remove args Nicholas Piggin
2021-02-08 10:04   ` Gautham R Shenoy
2021-02-08 11:54     ` Michael Ellerman
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 08/42] powerpc: do_break get registers from regs Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 09/42] powerpc: DebugException remove args Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 10/42] powerpc/32: transfer can avoid saving r4/r5 over trace call Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 11/42] powerpc: bad_page_fault get registers from regs Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 12/42] powerpc/64s: add do_bad_page_fault_segv handler Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 13/42] powerpc: rearrange do_page_fault error case to be inside exception_enter Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 14/42] powerpc/64s: move bad_page_fault handling to C Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 15/42] powerpc/64s: split do_hash_fault Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 16/42] powerpc/mm: Remove stale do_page_fault comment referring to SLB faults Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 18/42] powerpc/traps: add NOKPROBE_SYMBOL for sreset and mce Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 19/42] powerpc/perf: move perf irq/nmi handling details into traps.c Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-31 12:30   ` Athira Rajeev
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 20/42] powerpc/time: move timer_broadcast_interrupt prototype to asm/time.h Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 21/42] powerpc: add and use unknown_async_exception Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 22/42] powerpc/cell: tidy up pervasive declarations Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 23/42] powerpc: introduce die_mce Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 24/42] powerpc/mce: ensure machine check handler always tests RI Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 25/42] powerpc: improve handling of unrecoverable system reset Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 26/42] powerpc: interrupt handler wrapper functions Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 27/42] powerpc: add interrupt wrapper entry / exit stub functions Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 28/42] powerpc: convert interrupt handlers to use wrappers Nicholas Piggin
2021-02-03  1:54   ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-02-05  8:09   ` Christophe Leroy
2021-02-06  2:43     ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-02-07 12:56     ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 29/42] powerpc: add interrupt_cond_local_irq_enable helper Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 30/42] powerpc/64: context tracking remove _TIF_NOHZ Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 31/42] powerpc/64s/hash: improve context tracking of hash faults Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 32/42] powerpc/64: context tracking move to interrupt wrappers Nicholas Piggin
2021-02-09  5:49   ` Christophe Leroy
2021-02-09  7:45     ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 33/42] powerpc/64: add context tracking to asynchronous interrupts Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 34/42] powerpc: handle irq_enter/irq_exit in interrupt handler wrappers Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 35/42] powerpc/64s: move context tracking exit to interrupt exit path Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 36/42] powerpc/64s: reconcile interrupts in C Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 37/42] powerpc/64: move account_stolen_time into its own function Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 38/42] powerpc/64: entry cpu time accounting in C Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 39/42] powerpc: move NMI entry/exit code into wrapper Nicholas Piggin
2021-02-04 10:15   ` Michael Ellerman
2021-02-04 11:31     ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-02-05 23:38       ` Michael Ellerman
2021-02-06  2:46         ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-02-07 12:54           ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 40/42] powerpc/64s: move NMI soft-mask handling to C Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 41/42] powerpc/64s: runlatch interrupt handling in C Nicholas Piggin
2021-01-30 13:08 ` [PATCH v7 42/42] powerpc/64s: power4 nap fixup " Nicholas Piggin
2021-02-02 10:31   ` Michael Ellerman
2021-02-03  0:35     ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-02-07 12:58     ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-02-02  5:57 ` [PATCH v7 00/42] powerpc: interrupt wrappers Christophe Leroy
2021-02-10 12:57 ` Michael Ellerman

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