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2026-07-20entry, treewide: Make syscall_enter_from_user_mode[_work]() indicate syscall ↵Thomas Gleixner
execution The return values of syscall_enter_from_user_mode[_work]() are non-intuitive. Both functions return the syscall number which should be invoked by the architecture specific syscall entry code. The returned number can be: - the unmodified syscall number which was handed in by the caller - a modified syscall number (ptrace, seccomp, trace/probe/bpf) That has an additional twist. If the return value is -1L then the caller is not allowed to modify the return value as that indicates that the modifying entity requests to abort the syscall and set the return value already. That can obviously not be differentiated from a syscall which handed in -1 as syscall number. The most trivial way to deal with that is: set_return_value(regs, -ENOSYS); nr = syscall_enter_from_user_mode(regs, nr); if (valid(nr)) handle_syscall(regs, nr); That's what LOONGARCH, RISCV, and X86 do. But PowerPC and S390 do not preset the return value, so when user space hands in -1 and there is nothing setting the return value in the entry work code, then the syscall is skipped but the return value is whatever random data has been in the return value register. Change the return values of syscall_enter_from_user_mode[_work]() to boolean and return false, when either ptrace or seccomp request to skip the syscall. If they return true, update the syscall number as it might have been changed. That results in slightly different behaviour of the architectures versus tracing. If the syscall tracepoint has probe/BPF attached, those might set the syscall number to -1 and also set the return value. PowerPC and S390 will then overwrite that value with -ENOSYS. The other architectures will just ignore it like any other invalid syscall and use the modified one. Originally-by: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Tested-by: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260712141346.772209074@kernel.org
2026-07-20entry: Make return type of syscall_trace_enter() boolThomas Gleixner
This prepares for changing the return types of syscall_enter_from_user_mode[_work]() to bool, which in turn separates the decision of invoking the syscall from the syscall number, which might have been changed in the call by ptrace, seccomp, tracing. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Tested-by: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260712141346.699072205@kernel.org
2026-07-20entry: Rework trace_syscall_enter()Thomas Gleixner
Reread the syscall number from pt_regs and stop returning the eventually modified syscall number. That moves the reread to the end of syscall_trace_enter() and prepares for moving it to the call site. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Tested-by: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260712141346.639115923@kernel.org
2026-07-20entry: Rework syscall_audit_enter()Thomas Gleixner
Move it out of line and let it reread the syscall number on it's own. That makes the low level entry code denser and allows to move the reread to the call site of syscall_trace_enter() once the tracer is fixed up. To prevent the compiler from putting audit_context() out of line and thereby breaking dead code elimination, mark audit_context() __always_inline. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Tested-by: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260712141346.576865340@kernel.org
2026-07-14entry: Fix seccomp bypass after ptrace with TSYNCJinjie Ruan
Sashiko review pointed out the following issue. If a thread is stopped in syscall_trace_enter() for ptrace, another thread can install a seccomp filter with SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC (e.g., via seccomp_attach_filter()). This will successfully set SYSCALL_WORK_SECCOMP on the stopped thread, but syscall_trace_enter() evaluates a cached 'work' variable sampled on entry. Consequently, the subsequent check for SYSCALL_WORK_SECCOMP misses the newly assigned flag, and the filter is silently bypassed. This race condition could allow an unprivileged process to execute a prohibited system call (e.g., execve) that the newly installed filter was intended to block, especially since the tracer might have modified the system call number during the ptrace stop. Fix this by re-reading the syscall_work flags after ptrace handling, so that any new SYSCALL_WORK_SECCOMP flag set by another thread via TSYNC during the ptrace stop is observed before the subsequent seccomp check. Fixes: 142781e108b1 ("entry: Provide generic syscall entry functionality") Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260629132914.1135C1F000E9@smtp.kernel.org/ Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260713025712.416366-1-ruanjinjie@huawei.com
2026-07-12ptrace, treewide: Rename ptrace_report_syscall_entry() to ↵Thomas Gleixner
ptrace_report_syscall_permit_entry() The return value of that function is boolean and tells the caller whether to permit the syscall processing or not. Rename the function so the purpose is clear and make the return type bool. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Tested-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Radu Rendec <radu@rendec.net> Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707190254.280015701@kernel.org
2026-07-12seccomp, treewide: Rename and convert __secure_computing() to return booleanJinjie Ruan
The return value of __secure_computing() currently uses 0 to indicate that a system call should be allowed, and -1 to indicate that it should be blocked/killed. This 0/-1 pattern is non-intuitive for a security check function and makes the control flow at the call sites less readable. Furthermore, any potential future changes to these return values would require a high-risk, error-prone audit of all its users across different architectures. Sanitize this logic by converting the return type of __secure_computing() to a proper boolean, where 'true' explicitly means 'allow' and 'false' means 'fail/deny'. Update all the two dozen or so call sites across the tree to align with this new boolean semantic. No functional changes are intended, as the callers still return -1 to the lower-level assembly entry code upon seccomp denial. Rename the function to __seccomp_permit_syscall() so that the purpose is entirely clear. [ tglx: Rename the function ] Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Tested-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707190254.230735780@kernel.org
2026-07-12entry: Use syscall number instead of rereading itThomas Gleixner
rseq_syscall_enter_work() is invoked before the syscall number can be modified. So there is no point in rereading it from pt_regs. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Tested-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Radu Rendec <radu@rendec.net> Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@oss.qualcomm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707190254.181086755@kernel.org
2026-07-12entry: Remove syscall_enter_from_user_mode()Thomas Gleixner
All architecture use either: nr = syscall_enter_from_user_mode_randomize_stack(regs, nr); or enter_from_user_mode_randomize_stack(regs); nr = syscall_enter_from_user_mode_work(regs, nr); Remove the now unused function. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Tested-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707190254.132654198@kernel.org
2026-07-12entry: Provide [syscall_]enter_from_user_mode_randomize_stack()Thomas Gleixner
Randomizing the syscall stack can only happen after state is established via enter_from_user_mode() or syscall_enter_from_user_mode(). The earlier it happens the better. Provide two new macros to consolidate that: - enter_from_user_mode_randomize_stack() enter_from_user_mode(); add_random_kstack_offset_irqsoff(); - syscall_enter_from_user_mode_randomize_stack() enter_from_user_mode_randomize_stack(); syscall_enter_from_user_mode_work(); to reduce boiler plate code. Those are macros and not inline functions as the latter would limit the stack randomization scope to the inline function itself. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Tested-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Radu Rendec <radu@rendec.net> Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@oss.qualcomm.com> Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707190253.816918647@kernel.org
2026-07-08syscall_user_dispatch: Make it configurable in KconfigGregory Price
Syscall User Dispatch is presently built under CONFIG_GENERIC_SYSCALL and cannot be disabled independently. Add CONFIG_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH to make it an optional feature. Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260706140020.873735-2-gourry@gourry.net
2026-04-16entry: Kill ARCH_SYSCALL_WORK_{ENTER,EXIT}Oleg Nesterov
Nowadays nothing redefines these flags. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/advfWWKgOQkFkwp9@redhat.com
2026-04-14Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: "The biggest changes are MPAM enablement in drivers/resctrl and new PMU support under drivers/perf. On the core side, FEAT_LSUI lets futex atomic operations with EL0 permissions, avoiding PAN toggling. The rest is mostly TLB invalidation refactoring, further generic entry work, sysreg updates and a few fixes. Core features: - Add support for FEAT_LSUI, allowing futex atomic operations without toggling Privileged Access Never (PAN) - Further refactor the arm64 exception handling code towards the generic entry infrastructure - Optimise __READ_ONCE() with CONFIG_LTO=y and allow alias analysis through it Memory management: - Refactor the arm64 TLB invalidation API and implementation for better control over barrier placement and level-hinted invalidation - Enable batched TLB flushes during memory hot-unplug - Fix rodata=full block mapping support for realm guests (when BBML2_NOABORT is available) Perf and PMU: - Add support for a whole bunch of system PMUs featured in NVIDIA's Tegra410 SoC (cspmu extensions for the fabric and PCIe, new drivers for CPU/C2C memory latency PMUs) - Clean up iomem resource handling in the Arm CMN driver - Fix signedness handling of AA64DFR0.{PMUVer,PerfMon} MPAM (Memory Partitioning And Monitoring): - Add architecture context-switch and hiding of the feature from KVM - Add interface to allow MPAM to be exposed to user-space using resctrl - Add errata workaround for some existing platforms - Add documentation for using MPAM and what shape of platforms can use resctrl Miscellaneous: - Check DAIF (and PMR, where relevant) at task-switch time - Skip TFSR_EL1 checks and barriers in synchronous MTE tag check mode (only relevant to asynchronous or asymmetric tag check modes) - Remove a duplicate allocation in the kexec code - Remove redundant save/restore of SCS SP on entry to/from EL0 - Generate the KERNEL_HWCAP_ definitions from the arm64 hwcap descriptions - Add kselftest coverage for cmpbr_sigill() - Update sysreg definitions" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (109 commits) arm64: rsi: use linear-map alias for realm config buffer arm64: Kconfig: fix duplicate word in CMDLINE help text arm64: mte: Skip TFSR_EL1 checks and barriers in synchronous tag check mode arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1 description to DDI0601 2025-12 arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1 description to DDI0601 2025-12 arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64FPFR0_EL1 description to DDI0601 2025-12 arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64ISAR2_EL1 description to DDI0601 2025-12 arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64ISAR0_EL1 description to DDI0601 2025-12 arm64/hwcap: Generate the KERNEL_HWCAP_ definitions for the hwcaps arm64: kexec: Remove duplicate allocation for trans_pgd ACPI: AGDI: fix missing newline in error message arm64: Check DAIF (and PMR) at task-switch time arm64: entry: Use split preemption logic arm64: entry: Use irqentry_{enter_from,exit_to}_kernel_mode() arm64: entry: Consistently prefix arm64-specific wrappers arm64: entry: Don't preempt with SError or Debug masked entry: Split preemption from irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode() entry: Split kernel mode logic from irqentry_{enter,exit}() entry: Move irqentry_enter() prototype later entry: Remove local_irq_{enable,disable}_exit_to_user() ...
2026-04-08entry: Remove local_irq_{enable,disable}_exit_to_user()Mark Rutland
local_irq_enable_exit_to_user() and local_irq_disable_exit_to_user() are never overridden by architecture code, and are always equivalent to local_irq_enable() and local_irq_disable(). These functions were added on the assumption that arm64 would override them to manage 'DAIF' exception masking, as described by Thomas Gleixner in these threads: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20190919150809.340471236@linutronix.de/ https://lore.kernel.org/all/alpine.DEB.2.21.1910240119090.1852@nanos.tec.linutronix.de/ In practice arm64 did not need to override either. Prior to moving to the generic irqentry code, arm64's management of DAIF was reworked in commit: 97d935faacde ("arm64: Unmask Debug + SError in do_notify_resume()") Since that commit, arm64 only masks interrupts during the 'prepare' step when returning to user mode, and masks other DAIF exceptions later. Within arm64_exit_to_user_mode(), the arm64 entry code is as follows: local_irq_disable(); exit_to_user_mode_prepare_legacy(regs); local_daif_mask(); mte_check_tfsr_exit(); exit_to_user_mode(); Remove the unnecessary local_irq_enable_exit_to_user() and local_irq_disable_exit_to_user() functions. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407131650.3813777-3-mark.rutland@arm.com
2026-03-24entry: Add missing kernel-doc for arch_ptrace_report_syscall functionsKit Dallege
Document @regs and @step parameters for arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry() and arch_ptrace_report_syscall_exit() that were missing from the kernel-doc comments. Signed-off-by: Kit Dallege <xaum.io@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260315170941.65913-1-xaum.io@gmail.com
2026-01-30Merge branch 'core/entry' into sched/coreThomas Gleixner
Pull the entry update to avoid merge conflicts with the time slice extension changes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
2026-01-30entry: Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter()Jinjie Ruan
After switching ARM64 to the generic entry code, a syscall_exit_work() appeared as a profiling hotspot because it is not inlined. Inlining both syscall_trace_enter() and syscall_exit_work() provides a performance gain when any of the work items is enabled. With audit enabled this results in a ~4% performance gain for perf bench basic syscall on a kunpeng920 system: | Metric | Baseline | Inlined | Change | | ---------- | ----------- | ----------- | ------ | | Total time | 2.353 [sec] | 2.264 [sec] | ↓3.8% | | usecs/op | 0.235374 | 0.226472 | ↓3.8% | | ops/sec | 4,248,588 | 4,415,554 | ↑3.9% | Small gains can be observed on x86 as well, though the generated code optimizes for the work case, which is counterproductive for high performance scenarios where such entry/exit work is usually avoided. Avoid this by marking the work check in syscall_enter_from_user_mode_work() unlikely, which is what the corresponding check in the exit path does already. [ tglx: Massage changelog and add the unlikely() ] Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128031934.3906955-14-ruanjinjie@huawei.com
2026-01-30entry: Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit()Jinjie Ruan
ARM64 requires a architecture specific ptrace wrapper as it needs to save and restore scratch registers. Provide arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit() wrappers which fall back to ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit() if the architecture does not provide them. No functional change intended. [ tglx: Massaged changelog and comments ] Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128031934.3906955-11-ruanjinjie@huawei.com
2026-01-30entry: Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuseJinjie Ruan
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() invokes local_irq_disable_exit_to_user() and syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare() after handling pending syscall exit work. The conversion of ARM64 to the generic entry code requires this to be split up, so move the invocations of local_irq_disable_exit_to_user() and syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare() into the only caller. No functional change intended. [ tglx: Massaged changelog and comments ] Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128031934.3906955-10-ruanjinjie@huawei.com
2026-01-30entry: Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter()Jinjie Ruan
The 'syscall' argument of syscall_trace_enter() is immediately overwritten before any real use and serves only as a local variable, so drop the parameter. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128031934.3906955-2-ruanjinjie@huawei.com
2026-01-22rseq: Implement syscall entry work for time slice extensionsThomas Gleixner
The kernel sets SYSCALL_WORK_RSEQ_SLICE when it grants a time slice extension. This allows to handle the rseq_slice_yield() syscall, which is used by user space to relinquish the CPU after finishing the critical section for which it requested an extension. In case the kernel state is still GRANTED, the kernel resets both kernel and user space state with a set of sanity checks. If the kernel state is already cleared, then this raced against the timer or some other interrupt and just clears the work bit. Doing it in syscall entry work allows to catch misbehaving user space, which issues an arbitrary syscall, i.e. not rseq_slice_yield(), from the critical section. Contrary to the initial strict requirement to use rseq_slice_yield() arbitrary syscalls are not considered a violation of the ABI contract anymore to allow onion architecture applications, which cannot control the code inside a critical section, to utilize this as well. If the code detects inconsistent user space that result in a SIGSEGV for the application. If the grant was still active and the task was not preempted yet, the work code reschedules immediately before continuing through the syscall. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251215155709.005777059@linutronix.de
2025-11-04entry: Split up exit_to_user_mode_prepare()Thomas Gleixner
exit_to_user_mode_prepare() is used for both interrupts and syscalls, but there is extra rseq work, which is only required for in the interrupt exit case. Split up the function and provide wrappers for syscalls and interrupts, which allows to separate the rseq exit work in the next step. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027084307.782234789@linutronix.de
2025-11-04rseq: Use static branch for syscall exit debug when GENERIC_IRQ_ENTRY=yThomas Gleixner
Make the syscall exit debug mechanism available via the static branch on architectures which utilize the generic entry code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027084307.333440475@linutronix.de
2025-11-04entry: Remove syscall_enter_from_user_mode_prepare()Thomas Gleixner
Open code the only user in the x86 syscall code and reduce the zoo of functions. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027084306.652839989@linutronix.de
2025-11-04entry: Clean up headerThomas Gleixner
Clean up the include ordering, kernel-doc and other trivialities before making further changes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027084306.590338411@linutronix.de
2025-06-30entry: Split generic entry into generic exception and syscall entryJinjie Ruan
Currently CONFIG_GENERIC_ENTRY enables both the generic exception entry logic and the generic syscall entry logic, which are otherwise loosely coupled. Introduce separate config options for these so that architectures can select the two independently. This will make it easier for architectures to migrate to generic entry code. Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250213130007.1418890-2-ruanjinjie@huawei.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250624-generic-entry-split-v1-1-53d5ef4f94df@linaro.org [Linus Walleij: rebase onto v6.16-rc1]
2025-04-29entry: Inline syscall_exit_to_user_mode()Charlie Jenkins
Similar to commit 221a164035fd ("entry: Move syscall_enter_from_user_mode() to header file"), move syscall_exit_to_user_mode() to the header file as well. Testing was done with the byte-unixbench syscall benchmark (which calls getpid) and QEMU. On riscv I measured a 7.09246% improvement, on x86 a 2.98843% improvement, on loongarch a 6.07954% improvement, and on s390 a 11.1328% improvement. The Intel bot also reported "kernel test robot noticed a 1.9% improvement of stress-ng.seek.ops_per_sec". Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250320-riscv_optimize_entry-v6-4-63e187e26041@rivosinc.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/202502051555.85ae6844-lkp@intel.com/
2024-11-05sched: Add TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY infrastructurePeter Zijlstra
Add the basic infrastructure to split the TIF_NEED_RESCHED bit in two. Either bit will cause a resched on return-to-user, but only TIF_NEED_RESCHED will drive IRQ preemption. No behavioural change intended. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007075055.219540785@infradead.org
2024-07-29treewide: context_tracking: Rename CONTEXT_* into CT_STATE_*Valentin Schneider
Context tracking state related symbols currently use a mix of the CONTEXT_ (e.g. CONTEXT_KERNEL) and CT_SATE_ (e.g. CT_STATE_MASK) prefixes. Clean up the naming and make the ctx_state enum use the CT_STATE_ prefix. Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
2023-12-21entry: Move syscall_enter_from_user_mode() to header fileSven Schnelle
To allow inlining of syscall_enter_from_user_mode(), move it to entry-common.h. Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231218074520.1998026-4-svens@linux.ibm.com
2023-12-21entry: Move enter_from_user_mode() to header fileSven Schnelle
To allow inlining of enter_from_user_mode(), move it to entry-common.h. Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231218074520.1998026-3-svens@linux.ibm.com
2023-12-21entry: Move exit to usermode functions to header fileSven Schnelle
To allow inlining, move exit_to_user_mode() to entry-common.h. Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231218074520.1998026-2-svens@linux.ibm.com
2022-10-11include/linux/entry-common.h: remove has_signal comment of ↵Tiezhu Yang
arch_do_signal_or_restart() prototype The argument has_signal of arch_do_signal_or_restart() has been removed in commit 8ba62d37949e ("task_work: Call tracehook_notify_signal from get_signal on all architectures"), let us remove the related comment. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1662090106-5545-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn Fixes: 8ba62d37949e ("task_work: Call tracehook_notify_signal from get_signal on all architectures") Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-07-05context_tracking: Take IRQ eqs entrypoints over RCUFrederic Weisbecker
The RCU dynticks counter is going to be merged into the context tracking subsystem. Prepare with moving the IRQ extended quiescent states entrypoints to context tracking. For now those are dumb redirection to existing RCU calls. [ paulmck: Apply Stephen Rothwell feedback from -next. ] [ paulmck: Apply Nathan Chancellor feedback. ] Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@kernel.org> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com> Cc: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker<paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Alex Belits <abelits@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
2022-05-09entry: Rename arch_check_user_regs() to arch_enter_from_user_mode()Sven Schnelle
arch_check_user_regs() is used at the moment to verify that struct pt_regs contains valid values when entering the kernel from userspace. s390 needs a place in the generic entry code to modify a cpu data structure when switching from userspace to kernel mode. As arch_check_user_regs() is exactly this, rename it to arch_enter_from_user_mode(). When entering the kernel from userspace, arch_check_user_regs() is used to verify that struct pt_regs contains valid values. Note that the NMI codepath doesn't call this function. s390 needs a place in the generic entry code to modify a cpu data structure when switching from userspace to kernel mode. As arch_check_user_regs() is exactly this, rename it to arch_enter_from_user_mode(). Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220504062351.2954280-2-tmricht@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
2022-03-28Merge tag 'ptrace-cleanups-for-v5.18' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull ptrace cleanups from Eric Biederman: "This set of changes removes tracehook.h, moves modification of all of the ptrace fields inside of siglock to remove races, adds a missing permission check to ptrace.c The removal of tracehook.h is quite significant as it has been a major source of confusion in recent years. Much of that confusion was around task_work and TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL (which I have now decoupled making the semantics clearer). For people who don't know tracehook.h is a vestiage of an attempt to implement uprobes like functionality that was never fully merged, and was later superseeded by uprobes when uprobes was merged. For many years now we have been removing what tracehook functionaly a little bit at a time. To the point where anything left in tracehook.h was some weird strange thing that was difficult to understand" * tag 'ptrace-cleanups-for-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: ptrace: Remove duplicated include in ptrace.c ptrace: Check PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SECCOMP permission on PTRACE_SEIZE ptrace: Return the signal to continue with from ptrace_stop ptrace: Move setting/clearing ptrace_message into ptrace_stop tracehook: Remove tracehook.h resume_user_mode: Move to resume_user_mode.h resume_user_mode: Remove #ifdef TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME in set_notify_resume signal: Move set_notify_signal and clear_notify_signal into sched/signal.h task_work: Decouple TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and task_work task_work: Call tracehook_notify_signal from get_signal on all architectures task_work: Introduce task_work_pending task_work: Remove unnecessary include from posix_timers.h ptrace: Remove tracehook_signal_handler ptrace: Remove arch_syscall_{enter,exit}_tracehook ptrace: Create ptrace_report_syscall_{entry,exit} in ptrace.h ptrace/arm: Rename tracehook_report_syscall report_syscall ptrace: Move ptrace_report_syscall into ptrace.h
2022-03-10task_work: Call tracehook_notify_signal from get_signal on all architecturesEric W. Biederman
Always handle TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL in get_signal. With commit 35d0b389f3b2 ("task_work: unconditionally run task_work from get_signal()") always calling task_work_run all of the work of tracehook_notify_signal is already happening except clearing TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL. Factor clear_notify_signal out of tracehook_notify_signal and use it in get_signal so that get_signal only needs one call of task_work_run. To keep the semantics in sync update xfer_to_guest_mode_work (which does not call get_signal) to call tracehook_notify_signal if either _TIF_SIGPENDING or _TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220309162454.123006-8-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2022-03-10ptrace: Remove arch_syscall_{enter,exit}_tracehookEric W. Biederman
These functions are alwasy one-to-one wrappers around ptrace_report_syscall_entry and ptrace_report_syscall_exit. So directly call the functions they are wrapping instead. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220309162454.123006-4-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2022-03-10ptrace: Create ptrace_report_syscall_{entry,exit} in ptrace.hEric W. Biederman
Rename tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} to ptrace_report_syscall_{entry,exit} and place them in ptrace.h There is no longer any generic tracehook infractructure so make these ptrace specific functions ptrace specific. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220309162454.123006-3-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2022-02-19sched/preempt: Add PREEMPT_DYNAMIC using static keysMark Rutland
Where an architecture selects HAVE_STATIC_CALL but not HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE, each static call has an out-of-line trampoline which will either branch to a callee or return to the caller. On such architectures, a number of constraints can conspire to make those trampolines more complicated and potentially less useful than we'd like. For example: * Hardware and software control flow integrity schemes can require the addition of "landing pad" instructions (e.g. `BTI` for arm64), which will also be present at the "real" callee. * Limited branch ranges can require that trampolines generate or load an address into a register and perform an indirect branch (or at least have a slow path that does so). This loses some of the benefits of having a direct branch. * Interaction with SW CFI schemes can be complicated and fragile, e.g. requiring that we can recognise idiomatic codegen and remove indirections understand, at least until clang proves more helpful mechanisms for dealing with this. For PREEMPT_DYNAMIC, we don't need the full power of static calls, as we really only need to enable/disable specific preemption functions. We can achieve the same effect without a number of the pain points above by using static keys to fold early returns into the preemption functions themselves rather than in an out-of-line trampoline, effectively inlining the trampoline into the start of the function. For arm64, this results in good code generation. For example, the dynamic_cond_resched() wrapper looks as follows when enabled. When disabled, the first `B` is replaced with a `NOP`, resulting in an early return. | <dynamic_cond_resched>: | bti c | b <dynamic_cond_resched+0x10> // or `nop` | mov w0, #0x0 | ret | mrs x0, sp_el0 | ldr x0, [x0, #8] | cbnz x0, <dynamic_cond_resched+0x8> | paciasp | stp x29, x30, [sp, #-16]! | mov x29, sp | bl <preempt_schedule_common> | mov w0, #0x1 | ldp x29, x30, [sp], #16 | autiasp | ret ... compared to the regular form of the function: | <__cond_resched>: | bti c | mrs x0, sp_el0 | ldr x1, [x0, #8] | cbz x1, <__cond_resched+0x18> | mov w0, #0x0 | ret | paciasp | stp x29, x30, [sp, #-16]! | mov x29, sp | bl <preempt_schedule_common> | mov w0, #0x1 | ldp x29, x30, [sp], #16 | autiasp | ret Any architecture which implements static keys should be able to use this to implement PREEMPT_DYNAMIC with similar cost to non-inlined static calls. Since this is likely to have greater overhead than (inlined) static calls, PREEMPT_DYNAMIC is only defaulted to enabled when HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_CALL is selected. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220214165216.2231574-6-mark.rutland@arm.com
2022-02-19sched/preempt: Simplify irqentry_exit_cond_resched() callersMark Rutland
Currently callers of irqentry_exit_cond_resched() need to be aware of whether the function should be indirected via a static call, leading to ugly ifdeffery in callers. Save them the hassle with a static inline wrapper that does the right thing. The raw_irqentry_exit_cond_resched() will also be useful in subsequent patches which will add conditional wrappers for preemption functions. Note: in arch/x86/entry/common.c, xen_pv_evtchn_do_upcall() always calls irqentry_exit_cond_resched() directly, even when PREEMPT_DYNAMIC is in use. I believe this is a latent bug (which this patch corrects), but I'm not entirely certain this wasn't deliberate. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220214165216.2231574-4-mark.rutland@arm.com
2022-02-19sched/preempt: Refactor sched_dynamic_update()Mark Rutland
Currently sched_dynamic_update needs to open-code the enabled/disabled function names for each preemption model it supports, when in practice this is a boolean enabled/disabled state for each function. Make this clearer and avoid repetition by defining the enabled/disabled states at the function definition, and using helper macros to perform the static_call_update(). Where x86 currently overrides the enabled function, it is made to provide both the enabled and disabled states for consistency, with defaults provided by the core code otherwise. In subsequent patches this will allow us to support PREEMPT_DYNAMIC without static calls. There should be no functional change as a result of this patch. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220214165216.2231574-3-mark.rutland@arm.com
2021-03-22entry: Fix typos in commentsIngo Molnar
Fix 3 single-word typos in the generic syscall entry code. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2021-02-17preempt/dynamic: Provide irqentry_exit_cond_resched() static callPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
Provide static call to control IRQ preemption (called in CONFIG_PREEMPT) so that we can override its behaviour when preempt= is overriden. Since the default behaviour is full preemption, its call is initialized to provide IRQ preemption when preempt= isn't passed. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210118141223.123667-8-frederic@kernel.org
2021-02-06entry: Ensure trap after single-step on system call returnGabriel Krisman Bertazi
Commit 299155244770 ("entry: Drop usage of TIF flags in the generic syscall code") introduced a bug on architectures using the generic syscall entry code, in which processes stopped by PTRACE_SYSCALL do not trap on syscall return after receiving a TIF_SINGLESTEP. The reason is that the meaning of TIF_SINGLESTEP flag is overloaded to cause the trap after a system call is executed, but since the above commit, the syscall call handler only checks for the SYSCALL_WORK flags on the exit work. Split the meaning of TIF_SINGLESTEP such that it only means single-step mode, and create a new type of SYSCALL_WORK to request a trap immediately after a syscall in single-step mode. In the current implementation, the SYSCALL_WORK flag shadows the TIF_SINGLESTEP flag for simplicity. Update x86 to flip this bit when a tracer enables single stepping. Fixes: 299155244770 ("entry: Drop usage of TIF flags in the generic syscall code") Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87h7mtc9pr.fsf_-_@collabora.com
2020-12-16Merge tag 'tif-task_work.arch-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL updates from Jens Axboe: "This sits on top of of the core entry/exit and x86 entry branch from the tip tree, which contains the generic and x86 parts of this work. Here we convert the rest of the archs to support TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL. With that done, we can get rid of JOBCTL_TASK_WORK from task_work and signal.c, and also remove a deadlock work-around in io_uring around knowing that signal based task_work waking is invoked with the sighand wait queue head lock. The motivation for this work is to decouple signal notify based task_work, of which io_uring is a heavy user of, from sighand. The sighand lock becomes a huge contention point, particularly for threaded workloads where it's shared between threads. Even outside of threaded applications it's slower than it needs to be. Roman Gershman <romger@amazon.com> reported that his networked workload dropped from 1.6M QPS at 80% CPU to 1.0M QPS at 100% CPU after io_uring was changed to use TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL. The time was all spent hammering on the sighand lock, showing 57% of the CPU time there [1]. There are further cleanups possible on top of this. One example is TIF_PATCH_PENDING, where a patch already exists to use TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL instead. Hopefully this will also lead to more consolidation, but the work stands on its own as well" [1] https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/215 * tag 'tif-task_work.arch-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (28 commits) io_uring: remove 'twa_signal_ok' deadlock work-around kernel: remove checking for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL signal: kill JOBCTL_TASK_WORK io_uring: JOBCTL_TASK_WORK is no longer used by task_work task_work: remove legacy TWA_SIGNAL path sparc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL riscv: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL nds32: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL ia64: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL h8300: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL c6x: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL alpha: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL xtensa: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL arm: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL microblaze: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL hexagon: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL csky: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL openrisc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL sh: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL um: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL ...
2020-12-12kernel: remove checking for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNALJens Axboe
It's available everywhere now, no need to check or add dummy defines. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-12-02entry: Add syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work()Sven Schnelle
This is the same as syscall_exit_to_user_mode() but without calling exit_to_user_mode(). This can be used if there is an architectural reason to avoid the combo function, e.g. restarting a syscall without returning to userspace. Before returning to user space the caller has to invoke exit_to_user_mode(). [ tglx: Amended comments ] Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201201142755.31931-6-svens@linux.ibm.com
2020-12-02entry: Add exit_to_user_mode() wrapperSven Schnelle
Called from architecture specific code when syscall_exit_to_user_mode() is not suitable. It simply calls __exit_to_user_mode(). This way __exit_to_user_mode() can still be inlined because it is declared static __always_inline. [ tglx: Amended comments and moved it to a different place in the header ] Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201201142755.31931-5-svens@linux.ibm.com
2020-12-02entry_Add_enter_from_user_mode_wrapperSven Schnelle
To be called from architecture specific code if the combo interfaces are not suitable. It simply calls __enter_from_user_mode(). This way __enter_from_user_mode will still be inlined because it is declared static __always_inline. [ tglx: Amend comments and move it to a different location in the header ] Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201201142755.31931-4-svens@linux.ibm.com