Message-ID: <20250823161654.357235187@linutronix.de>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 18:39:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
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Subject: [patch V2 17/37] rseq: Expose lightweight statistics in debugfs

Analyzing the call frequency without actually using tracing is helpful for
analysis of this infrastructure. The overhead is minimal as it just
increments a per CPU counter associated to each operation.

The debugfs readout provides a racy sum of all counters.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 include/linux/rseq.h       |   16 ---------
 include/linux/rseq_entry.h |   49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 init/Kconfig               |   12 ++++++
 kernel/rseq.c              |   79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 4 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/rseq.h
+++ b/include/linux/rseq.h
@@ -29,21 +29,6 @@ static inline void rseq_sched_switch_eve
 	}
 }
 
-static __always_inline void rseq_exit_to_user_mode(void)
-{
-	struct rseq_event *ev = &current->rseq_event;
-
-	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ))
-		WARN_ON_ONCE(ev->sched_switch);
-
-	/*
-	 * Ensure that event (especially user_irq) is cleared when the
-	 * interrupt did not result in a schedule and therefore the
-	 * rseq processing did not clear it.
-	 */
-	ev->events = 0;
-}
-
 /*
  * KVM/HYPERV invoke resume_user_mode_work() before entering guest mode,
  * which clears TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME. To avoid updating user space RSEQ in
@@ -97,7 +82,6 @@ static inline void rseq_sched_switch_eve
 static inline void rseq_virt_userspace_exit(void) { }
 static inline void rseq_fork(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long clone_flags) { }
 static inline void rseq_execve(struct task_struct *t) { }
-static inline void rseq_exit_to_user_mode(void) { }
 #endif  /* !CONFIG_RSEQ */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ
--- a/include/linux/rseq_entry.h
+++ b/include/linux/rseq_entry.h
@@ -2,6 +2,37 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_RSEQ_ENTRY_H
 #define _LINUX_RSEQ_ENTRY_H
 
+/* Must be outside the CONFIG_RSEQ guard to resolve the stubs */
+#ifdef CONFIG_RSEQ_STATS
+#include <linux/percpu.h>
+
+struct rseq_stats {
+	unsigned long	exit;
+	unsigned long	signal;
+	unsigned long	slowpath;
+	unsigned long	ids;
+	unsigned long	cs;
+	unsigned long	clear;
+	unsigned long	fixup;
+};
+
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct rseq_stats, rseq_stats);
+
+/*
+ * Slow path has interrupts and preemption enabled, but the fast path
+ * runs with interrupts disabled so there is no point in having the
+ * preemption checks implied in __this_cpu_inc() for every operation.
+ */
+#ifdef RSEQ_BUILD_SLOW_PATH
+#define rseq_stat_inc(which)	this_cpu_inc((which))
+#else
+#define rseq_stat_inc(which)	raw_cpu_inc((which))
+#endif
+
+#else /* CONFIG_RSEQ_STATS */
+#define rseq_stat_inc(x)	do { } while (0)
+#endif /* !CONFIG_RSEQ_STATS */
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_RSEQ
 #include <linux/rseq.h>
 
@@ -41,8 +72,26 @@ static __always_inline void rseq_note_us
 		current->rseq_event.user_irq = true;
 }
 
+static __always_inline void rseq_exit_to_user_mode(void)
+{
+	struct rseq_event *ev = &current->rseq_event;
+
+	rseq_stat_inc(rseq_stats.exit);
+
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ))
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(ev->sched_switch);
+
+	/*
+	 * Ensure that event (especially user_irq) is cleared when the
+	 * interrupt did not result in a schedule and therefore the
+	 * rseq processing did not clear it.
+	 */
+	ev->events = 0;
+}
+
 #else /* CONFIG_RSEQ */
 static inline void rseq_note_user_irq_entry(void) { }
+static inline void rseq_exit_to_user_mode(void) { }
 #endif /* !CONFIG_RSEQ */
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_RSEQ_ENTRY_H */
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1883,6 +1883,18 @@ config RSEQ
 
 	  If unsure, say Y.
 
+config RSEQ_STATS
+	default n
+	bool "Enable lightweight statistics of restartable sequences" if EXPERT
+	depends on RSEQ && DEBUG_FS
+	help
+	  Enable lightweight counters which expose information about the
+	  frequency of RSEQ operations via debugfs. Mostly interesting for
+	  kernel debugging or performance analysis. While lightweight it's
+	  still adding code into the user/kernel mode transitions.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config DEBUG_RSEQ
 	default n
 	bool "Enable debugging of rseq() system call" if EXPERT
--- a/kernel/rseq.c
+++ b/kernel/rseq.c
@@ -67,12 +67,16 @@
  *   F1. <failure>
  */
 
+/* Required to select the proper per_cpu ops for rseq_stats_inc() */
+#define RSEQ_BUILD_SLOW_PATH
+
+#include <linux/debugfs.h>
+#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
+#include <linux/rseq_entry.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
-#include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
-#include <linux/rseq.h>
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
-#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
 #include <asm/ptrace.h>
 
 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
@@ -108,6 +112,56 @@ void __rseq_trace_ip_fixup(unsigned long
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_RSEQ_STATS
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rseq_stats, rseq_stats);
+
+static int rseq_debug_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
+{
+	struct rseq_stats stats = { };
+	unsigned int cpu;
+
+	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+		stats.exit	+= data_race(per_cpu(rseq_stats.exit, cpu));
+		stats.signal	+= data_race(per_cpu(rseq_stats.signal, cpu));
+		stats.slowpath	+= data_race(per_cpu(rseq_stats.slowpath, cpu));
+		stats.ids	+= data_race(per_cpu(rseq_stats.ids, cpu));
+		stats.cs	+= data_race(per_cpu(rseq_stats.cs, cpu));
+		stats.clear	+= data_race(per_cpu(rseq_stats.clear, cpu));
+		stats.fixup	+= data_race(per_cpu(rseq_stats.fixup, cpu));
+	}
+
+	seq_printf(m, "exit:   %16lu\n", stats.exit);
+	seq_printf(m, "signal: %16lu\n", stats.signal);
+	seq_printf(m, "slowp:  %16lu\n", stats.slowpath);
+	seq_printf(m, "ids:    %16lu\n", stats.ids);
+	seq_printf(m, "cs:     %16lu\n", stats.cs);
+	seq_printf(m, "clear:  %16lu\n", stats.clear);
+	seq_printf(m, "fixup:  %16lu\n", stats.fixup);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int rseq_debug_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
+{
+	return single_open(file, rseq_debug_show, inode->i_private);
+}
+
+static const struct file_operations dfs_ops = {
+	.open		= rseq_debug_open,
+	.read		= seq_read,
+	.llseek		= seq_lseek,
+	.release	= single_release,
+};
+
+static int __init rseq_debugfs_init(void)
+{
+	struct dentry *root_dir = debugfs_create_dir("rseq", NULL);
+
+	debugfs_create_file("stats", 0444, root_dir, NULL, &dfs_ops);
+	return 0;
+}
+__initcall(rseq_debugfs_init);
+#endif /* CONFIG_RSEQ_STATS */
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ
 static struct rseq *rseq_kernel_fields(struct task_struct *t)
 {
@@ -187,12 +241,13 @@ static int rseq_update_cpu_node_id(struc
 	u32 node_id = cpu_to_node(cpu_id);
 	u32 mm_cid = task_mm_cid(t);
 
-	/*
-	 * Validate read-only rseq fields.
-	 */
+	rseq_stat_inc(rseq_stats.ids);
+
+	/* Validate read-only rseq fields on debug kernels */
 	if (rseq_validate_ro_fields(t))
 		goto efault;
 	WARN_ON_ONCE((int) mm_cid < 0);
+
 	if (!user_write_access_begin(rseq, t->rseq_len))
 		goto efault;
 
@@ -403,6 +458,8 @@ static int rseq_ip_fixup(struct pt_regs
 	struct rseq_cs rseq_cs;
 	int ret;
 
+	rseq_stat_inc(rseq_stats.cs);
+
 	ret = rseq_get_rseq_cs(t, &rseq_cs);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
@@ -412,8 +469,10 @@ static int rseq_ip_fixup(struct pt_regs
 	 * If not nested over a rseq critical section, restart is useless.
 	 * Clear the rseq_cs pointer and return.
 	 */
-	if (!in_rseq_cs(ip, &rseq_cs))
+	if (!in_rseq_cs(ip, &rseq_cs)) {
+		rseq_stat_inc(rseq_stats.clear);
 		return clear_rseq_cs(t->rseq);
+	}
 	ret = rseq_check_flags(t, rseq_cs.flags);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
@@ -422,6 +481,7 @@ static int rseq_ip_fixup(struct pt_regs
 	ret = clear_rseq_cs(t->rseq);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
+	rseq_stat_inc(rseq_stats.fixup);
 	trace_rseq_ip_fixup(ip, rseq_cs.start_ip, rseq_cs.post_commit_offset,
 			    rseq_cs.abort_ip);
 	instruction_pointer_set(regs, (unsigned long)rseq_cs.abort_ip);
@@ -462,6 +522,11 @@ void __rseq_handle_notify_resume(struct
 	if (unlikely(t->flags & PF_EXITING))
 		return;
 
+	if (ksig)
+		rseq_stat_inc(rseq_stats.signal);
+	else
+		rseq_stat_inc(rseq_stats.slowpath);
+
 	/*
 	 * Read and clear the event pending bit first. If the task
 	 * was not preempted or migrated or a signal is on the way,

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