Commit e3aa43e9 authored by Nicolas Saenz Julienne's avatar Nicolas Saenz Julienne Committed by Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: core-api: entry: Add comments about nesting

The topic of nesting and reentrancy in the context of early entry code
hasn't been addressed so far. So do it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220110105044.94423-2-nsaenzju@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent bf026e2e
......@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ has to do extra work between the various steps. In such cases it has to
ensure that enter_from_user_mode() is called first on entry and
exit_to_user_mode() is called last on exit.
Do not nest syscalls. Nested systcalls will cause RCU and/or context tracking
to print a warning.
KVM
---
......@@ -121,6 +123,8 @@ Task work handling is done separately for guest at the boundary of the
vcpu_run() loop via xfer_to_guest_mode_handle_work() which is a subset of
the work handled on return to user space.
Do not nest KVM entry/exit transitions because doing so is nonsensical.
Interrupts and regular exceptions
---------------------------------
......@@ -180,6 +184,16 @@ before it handles soft interrupts, whose handlers must run in BH context rather
than irq-disabled context. In addition, irqentry_exit() might schedule, which
also requires that HARDIRQ_OFFSET has been removed from the preemption count.
Even though interrupt handlers are expected to run with local interrupts
disabled, interrupt nesting is common from an entry/exit perspective. For
example, softirq handling happens within an irqentry_{enter,exit}() block with
local interrupts enabled. Also, although uncommon, nothing prevents an
interrupt handler from re-enabling interrupts.
Interrupt entry/exit code doesn't strictly need to handle reentrancy, since it
runs with local interrupts disabled. But NMIs can happen anytime, and a lot of
the entry code is shared between the two.
NMI and NMI-like exceptions
---------------------------
......@@ -259,3 +273,7 @@ and for e.g. a debug exception it can look like this:
There is no combined irqentry_nmi_if_kernel() function available as the
above cannot be handled in an exception-agnostic way.
NMIs can happen in any context. For example, an NMI-like exception triggered
while handling an NMI. So NMI entry code has to be reentrant and state updates
need to handle nesting.
Markdown is supported
0%
or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment