powerpc: Allow perf_counters to access user memory at interrupt time

This provides a mechanism to allow the perf_counters code to access
user memory in a PMU interrupt routine.  Such an access can cause
various kinds of interrupt: SLB miss, MMU hash table miss, segment
table miss, or TLB miss, depending on the processor.  This commit
only deals with 64-bit classic/server processors, which use an MMU
hash table.  32-bit processors are already able to access user memory
at interrupt time.  Since we don't soft-disable on 32-bit, we avoid
the possibility of reentering hash_page or the TLB miss handlers,
since they run with interrupts disabled.

On 64-bit processors, an SLB miss interrupt on a user address will
update the slb_cache and slb_cache_ptr fields in the paca.  This is
OK except in the case where a PMU interrupt occurs in switch_slb,
which also accesses those fields.  To prevent this, we hard-disable
interrupts in switch_slb.  Interrupts are already soft-disabled at
this point, and will get hard-enabled when they get soft-enabled
later.

This also reworks slb_flush_and_rebolt: to avoid hard-disabling twice,
and to make sure that it clears the slb_cache_ptr when called from
other callers than switch_slb, the existing routine is renamed to
__slb_flush_and_rebolt, which is called by switch_slb and the new
version of slb_flush_and_rebolt.

Similarly, switch_stab (used on POWER3 and RS64 processors) gets a
hard_irq_disable() to protect the per-cpu variables used there and
in ste_allocate.

If a MMU hashtable miss interrupt occurs, normally we would call
hash_page to look up the Linux PTE for the address and create a HPTE.
However, hash_page is fairly complex and takes some locks, so to
avoid the possibility of deadlock, we check the preemption count
to see if we are in a (pseudo-)NMI handler, and if so, we don't call
hash_page but instead treat it like a bad access that will get
reported up through the exception table mechanism.  An interrupt
whose handler runs even though the interrupt occurred when
soft-disabled (such as the PMU interrupt) is considered a pseudo-NMI
handler, which should use nmi_enter()/nmi_exit() rather than
irq_enter()/irq_exit().

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
index 5b7038f..a685652 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
@@ -92,15 +92,13 @@ static inline void create_shadowed_slbe(unsigned long ea, int ssize,
 		     : "memory" );
 }
 
-void slb_flush_and_rebolt(void)
+static void __slb_flush_and_rebolt(void)
 {
 	/* If you change this make sure you change SLB_NUM_BOLTED
 	 * appropriately too. */
 	unsigned long linear_llp, vmalloc_llp, lflags, vflags;
 	unsigned long ksp_esid_data, ksp_vsid_data;
 
-	WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled());
-
 	linear_llp = mmu_psize_defs[mmu_linear_psize].sllp;
 	vmalloc_llp = mmu_psize_defs[mmu_vmalloc_psize].sllp;
 	lflags = SLB_VSID_KERNEL | linear_llp;
@@ -117,12 +115,6 @@ void slb_flush_and_rebolt(void)
 		ksp_vsid_data = get_slb_shadow()->save_area[2].vsid;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * We can't take a PMU exception in the following code, so hard
-	 * disable interrupts.
-	 */
-	hard_irq_disable();
-
 	/* We need to do this all in asm, so we're sure we don't touch
 	 * the stack between the slbia and rebolting it. */
 	asm volatile("isync\n"
@@ -139,6 +131,21 @@ void slb_flush_and_rebolt(void)
 		     : "memory");
 }
 
+void slb_flush_and_rebolt(void)
+{
+
+	WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled());
+
+	/*
+	 * We can't take a PMU exception in the following code, so hard
+	 * disable interrupts.
+	 */
+	hard_irq_disable();
+
+	__slb_flush_and_rebolt();
+	get_paca()->slb_cache_ptr = 0;
+}
+
 void slb_vmalloc_update(void)
 {
 	unsigned long vflags;
@@ -180,12 +187,20 @@ static inline int esids_match(unsigned long addr1, unsigned long addr2)
 /* Flush all user entries from the segment table of the current processor. */
 void switch_slb(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
-	unsigned long offset = get_paca()->slb_cache_ptr;
+	unsigned long offset;
 	unsigned long slbie_data = 0;
 	unsigned long pc = KSTK_EIP(tsk);
 	unsigned long stack = KSTK_ESP(tsk);
 	unsigned long unmapped_base;
 
+	/*
+	 * We need interrupts hard-disabled here, not just soft-disabled,
+	 * so that a PMU interrupt can't occur, which might try to access
+	 * user memory (to get a stack trace) and possible cause an SLB miss
+	 * which would update the slb_cache/slb_cache_ptr fields in the PACA.
+	 */
+	hard_irq_disable();
+	offset = get_paca()->slb_cache_ptr;
 	if (!cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_NO_SLBIE_B) &&
 	    offset <= SLB_CACHE_ENTRIES) {
 		int i;
@@ -200,7 +215,7 @@ void switch_slb(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
 		}
 		asm volatile("isync" : : : "memory");
 	} else {
-		slb_flush_and_rebolt();
+		__slb_flush_and_rebolt();
 	}
 
 	/* Workaround POWER5 < DD2.1 issue */