context_tracking: Don't implement exception_enter/exit() on CONFIG_HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK
The typical steps with context tracking are: 1) Task runs in userspace 2) Task enters the kernel (syscall/exception/IRQ) 3) Task switches from context tracking state CONTEXT_USER to CONTEXT_KERNEL (user_exit()) 4) Task does stuff in kernel 5) Task switches from context tracking state CONTEXT_KERNEL to CONTEXT_USER (user_enter()) 6) Task exits the kernel If an exception fires between 5) and 6), the pt_regs and the context tracking disagree on the context of the faulted/trapped instruction. CONTEXT_KERNEL must be set before the exception handler, that's unconditional for those handlers that want to be able to call into schedule(), but CONTEXT_USER must be restored when the exception exits whereas pt_regs tells that we are resuming to kernel space. This can't be fixed with storing the context tracking state in a per-cpu or per-task variable since another exception may fire onto the current one and overwrite the saved state. Also the task can schedule. So it has to be stored in a per task stack. This is how exception_enter()/exception_exit() paper over the problem: 5) Task switches from context tracking state CONTEXT_KERNEL to CONTEXT_USER (user_enter()) 5.1) Exception fires 5.2) prev_state = exception_enter() // save CONTEXT_USER to prev_state // and set CONTEXT_KERNEL 5.3) Exception handler 5.4) exception_enter(prev_state) // restore CONTEXT_USER 5.5) Exception resumes 6) Task exits the kernel The condition to live without exception_enter()/exception_exit() is to forbid exceptions and IRQs between 2) and 3) and between 5) and 6), or if any is allowed to trigger, it won't call into context tracking, eg: NMIs, and it won't schedule. These requirements are met by architectures supporting CONFIG_HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK and those can therefore afford not to implement this hack. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201117151637.259084-3-frederic@kernel.org
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