[tip:x86/asm] x86/irq, context_tracking: Document how IRQ context tracking works and add an RCU assertion

[tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski]

Commit-ID:  0333a209cbf600e980fc55c24878a56f25f48b65
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/0333a209cbf600e980fc55c24878a56f25f48b65
Author:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 12:44:34 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 10:59:10 +0200

x86/irq, context_tracking: Document how IRQ context tracking works and add an RCU assertion

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e8bdc4ed0193fb2fd130f3d6b7b8023e2ec1ab62.1435952415.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 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 88b36648..6233de0 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)) {
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