Re: [patch V4 part 5 02/31] x86/entry: Provide helpers for execute on irqstack

From: Alexandre Chartre
Date: Mon May 11 2020 - 05:09:48 EST



On 5/5/20 3:53 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
Device interrupt handlers and system vector handlers are executed on the
interrupt stack. The stack switch happens in the low level assembly entry
code. This conflicts with the efforts to consolidate the exit code in C to
ensure correctness vs. RCU and tracing.

As there is no way to move #DB away from IST due to the MOV SS issue, the
requirements vs. #DB and NMI for switching to the interrupt stack do not
exist anymore. The only requirement is that interrupts are disabled.

That allows to move the stack switching to C code which simplifies the
entry/exit handling further because it allows to switch stacks after
handling the entry and on exit before handling RCU, return to usermode and
kernel preemption in the same way as for regular exceptions.

That also allows to move the xen hypercall extra magic code and the softirq
stack switching into C.

The mechanism is straight forward:

1) Store the current stack pointer on top of the interrupt stack. That's
required for the unwinder.

2) Switch the stack pointer

3) Call the function

4) Restore the stackpointer

The full code sequence to make the unwinder happy is:

pushq %rbp
movq %rsp, %rbp
movq $(top_of_hardirq_stack - 8), %reg
movq %rsp, (%reg)
movq %reg , %rsp
call function
popq %rsp
leaveq

While the following sequence would spare the 'popq %rsp':

pushq %rbp
movq $(top_of_hardirq_stack - 8), %rbp
movq %rsp, (%rrbp)

Should be (%rbp) instead of (%rrbp).


xchgq %rbp, %rsp
call function
movq %rbp, %rsp
leaveq

but that requires further changes to objtool so that the unwinder works
correctly. Can be done on top and is not critical for now.

Provide helper functions to check whether the interrupt stack is already
active and whether stack switching is required.

64 bit only for now. 32 bit has a variant of that already. Once this is
cleaned up the two implementations might be consolidated as a cleanup on
top.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/irq_stack.h | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 61 insertions(+)

--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_stack.h
...
+/*
+ * Macro to emit code for running @func on the irq stack.
+ */
+#define RUN_ON_IRQSTACK(func) { \
+ unsigned long tos; \
+ \
+ lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled(); \
+ \
+ tos = ((unsigned long)__this_cpu_read(hardirq_stack_ptr)) - 8; \
+ \
+ __this_cpu_add(irq_count, 1); \
+ asm volatile( \
+ "pushq %%rbp \n" \
+ "movq %%rsp, %%rbp \n" \
+ "movq %%rsp, (%[ts]) \n" \
+ "movq %[ts], %%rsp \n" \
+ "1: \n" \
+ " .pushsection .discard.instr_begin \n" \
+ " .long 1b - . \n" \
+ " .popsection \n" \
+ "call " __ASM_FORM(func) " \n" \
+ "2: \n" \
+ " .pushsection .discard.instr_end \n" \
+ " .long 2b - . \n" \
+ " .popsection \n" \
+ "popq %%rsp \n" \
+ "leaveq \n" \
+ : \
+ : [ts] "r" (tos) \
+ : "memory" \
+ ); \
+ __this_cpu_sub(irq_count, 1); \
+}

The pushsection/popsection discard.instr_begin/end sequences are used several
times in asm() statement at different places, so I wonder if it might be worth
having a macro.

In part 1, patch 20/36 adds instr_begin()/end(): they provide the sequence
but already encapsulated into an asm() statement, then we could do something
like this:

/* Begin/end of an instrumentation safe region */
#define instr_begin_insn(label) \
__stringify(label) ":\n\t" \
".pushsection .discard.instr_begin\n\t" \
".long " __stringify(label) "b - .\n\t" \
".popsection\n\t"

#define instr_end_insn(label) \
__stringify(label) ":\n\t" \
".pushsection .discard.instr_end\n\t" \
".long " __stringify(label) "b - .\n\t" \
".popsection\n\t"

#define instr_begin() ({asm volatile(instr_begin_insn(__COUNTER__));})
#define instr_end() ({asm volatile(instr_end_insn(__COUNTER__));})> +#else /* CONFIG_X86_64 */

And the RUN_ON_IRQSTACK macro would become:

#define RUN_ON_IRQSTACK(func) { \
unsigned long tos; \
\
lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled(); \
\
tos = ((unsigned long)__this_cpu_read(hardirq_stack_ptr)) - 8; \
\
__this_cpu_add(irq_count, 1); \
asm volatile( \
"pushq %%rbp \n" \
"movq %%rsp, %%rbp \n" \
"movq %%rsp, (%[ts]) \n" \
"movq %[ts], %%rsp \n" \
instr_begin_insn(1) \
"call " __ASM_FORM(func) " \n" \
instr_end_insn(2) \
"popq %%rsp \n" \
"leaveq \n" \
: \
: [ts] "r" (tos) \
: "memory" \
); \
__this_cpu_sub(irq_count, 1); \
}

alex.