From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Indu Bhagat <indu.bhagat@oracle.com>,
"Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@gnu.org>,
Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com>,
Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Subject: [PATCH v16 05/10] unwind_user/deferred: Make unwind deferral requests NMI-safe
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:23:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250729182405.657072238@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20250729182304.965835871@kernel.org
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Make unwind_deferred_request() NMI-safe so tracers in NMI context can
call it and safely request a user space stacktrace when the task exits.
Note, this is only allowed for architectures that implement a safe
cmpxchg. If an architecture requests a deferred stack trace from NMI
context that does not support a safe NMI cmpxchg, it will get an -EINVAL
and trigger a warning. For those architectures, they would need another
method (perhaps an irqwork), to request a deferred user space stack trace.
That can be dealt with later if one of theses architectures require this
feature.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
kernel/unwind/deferred.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/unwind/deferred.c b/kernel/unwind/deferred.c
index 2cbae2ada309..c5ac087d2396 100644
--- a/kernel/unwind/deferred.c
+++ b/kernel/unwind/deferred.c
@@ -12,6 +12,31 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
+/*
+ * For requesting a deferred user space stack trace from NMI context
+ * the architecture must support a safe cmpxchg in NMI context.
+ * For those architectures that do not have that, then it cannot ask
+ * for a deferred user space stack trace from an NMI context. If it
+ * does, then it will get -EINVAL.
+ */
+#if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG)
+# define CAN_USE_IN_NMI 1
+static inline bool try_assign_cnt(struct unwind_task_info *info, u32 cnt)
+{
+ u32 old = 0;
+
+ return try_cmpxchg(&info->id.cnt, &old, cnt);
+}
+#else
+# define CAN_USE_IN_NMI 0
+/* When NMIs are not allowed, this always succeeds */
+static inline bool try_assign_cnt(struct unwind_task_info *info, u32 cnt)
+{
+ info->id.cnt = cnt;
+ return true;
+}
+#endif
+
/* Make the cache fit in a 4K page */
#define UNWIND_MAX_ENTRIES \
((SZ_4K - sizeof(struct unwind_cache)) / sizeof(long))
@@ -42,14 +67,13 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u32, unwind_ctx_ctr);
static u64 get_cookie(struct unwind_task_info *info)
{
u32 cnt = 1;
- u32 old = 0;
if (info->id.cpu)
return info->id.id;
/* LSB is always set to ensure 0 is an invalid value */
cnt |= __this_cpu_read(unwind_ctx_ctr) + 2;
- if (try_cmpxchg(&info->id.cnt, &old, cnt)) {
+ if (try_assign_cnt(info, cnt)) {
/* Update the per cpu counter */
__this_cpu_write(unwind_ctx_ctr, cnt);
}
@@ -167,31 +191,43 @@ static void unwind_deferred_task_work(struct callback_head *head)
int unwind_deferred_request(struct unwind_work *work, u64 *cookie)
{
struct unwind_task_info *info = ¤t->unwind_info;
+ long pending;
int ret;
*cookie = 0;
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(in_nmi()))
- return -EINVAL;
-
if ((current->flags & (PF_KTHREAD | PF_EXITING)) ||
!user_mode(task_pt_regs(current)))
return -EINVAL;
+ /*
+ * NMI requires having safe cmpxchg operations.
+ * Trigger a warning to make it obvious that an architecture
+ * is using this in NMI when it should not be.
+ */
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!CAN_USE_IN_NMI && in_nmi()))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
guard(irqsave)();
*cookie = get_cookie(info);
/* callback already pending? */
- if (info->pending)
+ pending = READ_ONCE(info->pending);
+ if (pending)
+ return 1;
+
+ /* Claim the work unless an NMI just now swooped in to do so. */
+ if (!try_cmpxchg(&info->pending, &pending, 1))
return 1;
/* The work has been claimed, now schedule it. */
ret = task_work_add(current, &info->work, TWA_RESUME);
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret))
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret)) {
+ WRITE_ONCE(info->pending, 0);
return ret;
+ }
- info->pending = 1;
return 0;
}
--
2.47.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-29 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-29 18:23 [PATCH v16 00/10] unwind_user: Deferred unwinding infrastructure Steven Rostedt
2025-07-29 18:23 ` [PATCH v16 01/10] unwind_user: Add user space unwinding API with frame pointer support Steven Rostedt
2025-07-29 18:23 ` [PATCH v16 02/10] unwind_user/deferred: Add unwind_user_faultable() Steven Rostedt
2025-07-29 18:23 ` [PATCH v16 03/10] unwind_user/deferred: Add unwind cache Steven Rostedt
2025-07-30 4:55 ` Indu Bhagat
2025-07-30 13:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-30 23:58 ` Indu Bhagat
2025-07-29 18:23 ` [PATCH v16 04/10] unwind_user/deferred: Add deferred unwinding interface Steven Rostedt
2025-07-29 18:23 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2025-07-29 18:23 ` [PATCH v16 06/10] unwind deferred: Use bitmask to determine which callbacks to call Steven Rostedt
2025-07-29 18:23 ` [PATCH v16 07/10] unwind deferred: Add unwind_completed mask to stop spurious callbacks Steven Rostedt
2025-07-29 18:23 ` [PATCH v16 08/10] unwind: Add USED bit to only have one conditional on way back to user space Steven Rostedt
2025-07-29 18:23 ` [PATCH v16 09/10] unwind deferred: Use SRCU unwind_deferred_task_work() Steven Rostedt
2025-08-01 0:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-01 1:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-07-29 18:23 ` [PATCH v16 10/10] unwind: Finish up unwind when a task exits Steven Rostedt
2025-08-02 0:14 ` [PATCH v16 00/10] unwind_user: Deferred unwinding infrastructure patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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