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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 19:46:18 -0700 From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> To: x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> Subject: [PATCH v3 15/15] x86/irq: Document how IRQ context tracking works and add an assertion Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> --- arch/x86/kernel/irq.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c index 88b366487b0e..6233de046c08 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c @@ -216,8 +216,23 @@ __visible unsigned int __irq_entry do_IRQ(struct pt_regs *regs) unsigned vector = ~regs->orig_ax; unsigned irq; + /* + * NB: Unlike exception entries, IRQ entries do not reliably + * handle context tracking in the low-level entry code. This is + * because syscall entries execute briefly with IRQs on before + * updating context tracking state, so we can take an IRQ from + * kernel mode with CONTEXT_USER. The low-level entry code only + * updates the context if we came from user mode, so we won't + * switch to CONTEXT_KERNEL. We'll fix that once the syscall + * code is cleaned up enough that we can cleanly defer enabling + * IRQs. + */ + entering_irq(); + /* entering_irq() tells RCU that we're not quiescent. Check it. */ + rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_is_watching(), "IRQ failed to wake up RCU"); + irq = __this_cpu_read(vector_irq[vector]); if (!handle_irq(irq, regs)) { -- 2.4.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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