[PATCH v3] arm64: Introduce IRQ stack
Jungseok Lee
jungseoklee85 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 12:59:19 PDT 2015
On Sep 22, 2015, at 9:11 PM, Jungseok Lee wrote:
Dear all,
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Jungseok Lee
> Currently, kernel context and interrupts are handled using a single
> kernel stack navigated by sp_el1. This forces a system to use 16KB
> stack, not 8KB one. This restriction makes low memory platforms suffer
> from memory pressure accompanied by performance degradation.
>
> This patch addresses the issue as introducing a separate percpu IRQ
> stack to handle both hard and soft interrupts with two ground rules:
>
> - Utilize sp_el0 in EL1 context, which is not used currently
> - Do not complicate current_thread_info calculation
>
> It is a core concept to directly retrieve struct thread_info from
> sp_el0. This approach helps to prevent text section size from being
> increased largely as removing masking operation using THREAD_SIZE
> in tons of places.
>
> [Thanks to James Morse for his valuable feedbacks which greatly help
> to figure out a better implementation. - Jungseok]
>
> Tested-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jungseok Lee <jungseoklee85 at gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes since v2:
> - Optmised current_thread_info function as removing masking operation
> and volatile keyword per James and Catalin
> - Reworked irq re-enterance check logic using top-bit comparison of
> stacks per James
> - Added sp_el0 update in cpu_resume per James
> - Selected HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK to expose this feature explicitly
> - Added a Tested-by tag from James
> - Added comments on sp_el0 as a helper messeage
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Rebased on top of v4.3-rc1
> - Removed Kconfig about IRQ stack, per James
> - Used PERCPU for IRQ stack, per James
> - Tried to allocate IRQ stack when CPU is about to start up, per James
> - Moved sp_el0 update into kernel_entry macro, per James
> - Dropped S_SP removal patch, per Mark and James
>
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h | 2 +
> arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h | 10 ++++-
> arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 35 +++++++++++++---
> arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 5 +++
> arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c | 21 ++++++++++
> arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S | 3 ++
> arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 6 +++
> 8 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 07d1811..9767bd9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ config ARM64
> select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
> select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
> select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT if PERF_EVENTS
> + select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
> select HAVE_MEMBLOCK
> select HAVE_PATA_PLATFORM
> select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h
> index bbb251b..ba12725 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h
> @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ struct pt_regs;
> extern void migrate_irqs(void);
> extern void set_handle_irq(void (*handle_irq)(struct pt_regs *));
>
> +extern int alloc_irq_stack(unsigned int cpu);
> +
> static inline void acpi_irq_init(void)
> {
> /*
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
> index dcd06d1..fa014df 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
> @@ -71,10 +71,16 @@ register unsigned long current_stack_pointer asm ("sp");
> */
> static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void) __attribute_const__;
>
> +/*
> + * struct thread_info can be accessed directly via sp_el0.
> + */
> static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
> {
> - return (struct thread_info *)
> - (current_stack_pointer & ~(THREAD_SIZE - 1));
> + unsigned long sp_el0;
> +
> + asm ("mrs %0, sp_el0" : "=r" (sp_el0));
> +
> + return (struct thread_info *)sp_el0;
> }
>
> #define thread_saved_pc(tsk) \
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> index 4306c93..e5b8482 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -88,7 +88,8 @@
>
> .if \el == 0
> mrs x21, sp_el0
> - get_thread_info tsk // Ensure MDSCR_EL1.SS is clear,
> + mov tsk, sp
> + and tsk, tsk, #~(THREAD_SIZE - 1) // Ensure MDSCR_EL1.SS is clear,
> ldr x19, [tsk, #TI_FLAGS] // since we can unmask debug
> disable_step_tsk x19, x20 // exceptions when scheduling.
> .else
> @@ -105,6 +106,7 @@
> .if \el == 0
> mvn x21, xzr
> str x21, [sp, #S_SYSCALLNO]
> + msr sp_el0, tsk
> .endif
>
> /*
> @@ -164,8 +166,28 @@ alternative_endif
> .endm
>
> .macro get_thread_info, rd
> - mov \rd, sp
> - and \rd, \rd, #~(THREAD_SIZE - 1) // top of stack
> + mrs \rd, sp_el0
> + .endm
> +
> + .macro irq_stack_entry
> + adr_l x21, irq_stack
> + mrs x22, tpidr_el1
> + add x21, x21, x22
> + ldr x22, [x21]
> + and x21, x22, #~(THREAD_SIZE - 1)
> + mov x23, sp
> + and x23, x23, #~(THREAD_SIZE - 1)
> + cmp x21, x23 // check irq re-enterance
> + mov x21, sp
> + csel x23, x21, x22, eq // x22 = top of irq stack
> + mov sp, x23
> + .endm
> +
> + /*
> + * x21 is preserved between irq_stack_entry and irq_stack_exit.
> + */
> + .macro irq_stack_exit
> + mov sp, x21
> .endm
>
> /*
> @@ -183,10 +205,11 @@ tsk .req x28 // current thread_info
> * Interrupt handling.
> */
> .macro irq_handler
> - adrp x1, handle_arch_irq
> - ldr x1, [x1, #:lo12:handle_arch_irq]
> + ldr_l x1, handle_arch_irq
> mov x0, sp
> + irq_stack_entry
> blr x1
> + irq_stack_exit
> .endm
>
> .text
> @@ -597,6 +620,8 @@ ENTRY(cpu_switch_to)
> ldp x29, x9, [x8], #16
> ldr lr, [x8]
> mov sp, x9
> + and x9, x9, #~(THREAD_SIZE - 1)
> + msr sp_el0, x9
> ret
> ENDPROC(cpu_switch_to)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> index 90d09ed..dab089b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> @@ -441,6 +441,9 @@ __mmap_switched:
> b 1b
> 2:
> adr_l sp, initial_sp, x4
> + mov x4, sp
> + and x4, x4, #~(THREAD_SIZE - 1)
> + msr sp_el0, x4 // Save thread_info
> str_l x21, __fdt_pointer, x5 // Save FDT pointer
> str_l x24, memstart_addr, x6 // Save PHYS_OFFSET
> mov x29, #0
> @@ -618,6 +621,8 @@ ENDPROC(secondary_startup)
> ENTRY(__secondary_switched)
> ldr x0, [x21] // get secondary_data.stack
> mov sp, x0
> + and x0, x0, #~(THREAD_SIZE - 1)
> + msr sp_el0, x0 // save thread_info
> mov x29, #0
> b secondary_start_kernel
> ENDPROC(__secondary_switched)
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c
> index 11dc3fd..5272bfd 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c
> @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
>
> unsigned long irq_err_count;
>
> +DEFINE_PER_CPU(void *, irq_stack);
> +
> int arch_show_interrupts(struct seq_file *p, int prec)
> {
> show_ipi_list(p, prec);
> @@ -50,6 +52,9 @@ void __init set_handle_irq(void (*handle_irq)(struct pt_regs *))
>
> void __init init_IRQ(void)
> {
> + if (alloc_irq_stack(smp_processor_id()))
> + panic("Failed to allocate IRQ stack for boot cpu");
> +
> irqchip_init();
> if (!handle_arch_irq)
> panic("No interrupt controller found.");
> @@ -115,3 +120,19 @@ void migrate_irqs(void)
> local_irq_restore(flags);
> }
> #endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
> +
> +int alloc_irq_stack(unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> + void *stack;
> +
> + if (per_cpu(irq_stack, cpu))
> + return 0;
> +
> + stack = (void *)__get_free_pages(THREADINFO_GFP, THREAD_SIZE_ORDER);
> + if (!stack)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + per_cpu(irq_stack, cpu) = stack + THREAD_START_SP;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S
> index f586f7c..e33fe33 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S
> @@ -173,6 +173,9 @@ ENTRY(cpu_resume)
> /* load physical address of identity map page table in x1 */
> adrp x1, idmap_pg_dir
> mov sp, x2
> + /* save thread_info */
> + and x2, x2, #~(THREAD_SIZE - 1)
> + msr sp_el0, x2
> /*
> * cpu_do_resume expects x0 to contain context physical address
> * pointer and x1 to contain physical address of 1:1 page tables
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> index dbdaacd..0bd7049 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -97,6 +97,12 @@ int __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
> secondary_data.stack = task_stack_page(idle) + THREAD_START_SP;
> __flush_dcache_area(&secondary_data, sizeof(secondary_data));
>
> + ret = alloc_irq_stack(cpu);
> + if (ret) {
> + pr_crit("CPU%u: failed to allocate IRQ stack\n", cpu);
> + return ret;
> + }
> +
> /*
> * Now bring the CPU into our world.
> */
> --
> 2.5.0
>
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