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Exceptions which can be taken at (almost) any time are consdiered to be
NMIs. On arm64 that includes:
* SDEI events
* GICv3 Pseudo-NMIs
* Kernel stack overflows
* Unexpected/unhandled exceptions
... but currently debug exceptions (BRKs, breakpoints, watchpoints,
single-step) are not considered NMIs.
As these can be taken at any time, kernel features (lockdep, RCU,
ftrace) may not be in a consistent kernel state. For example, we may
take an NMI from the idle code or partway through an entry/exit path.
While nmi_enter() and nmi_exit() handle most of this state, notably they
don't save/restore the lockdep state across an NMI being taken and
handled. When interrupts are enabled and an NMI is taken, lockdep may
see interrupts become disabled within the NMI code, but not see
interrupts become enabled when returning from the NMI, leaving lockdep
believing interrupts are disabled when they are actually disabled.
The x86 code handles this in idtentry_{enter,exit}_nmi(), which will
shortly be moved to the generic entry code. As we can't use either yet,
we copy the x86 approach in arm64-specific helpers. All the NMI
entrypoints are marked as noinstr to prevent any instrumentation
handling code being invoked before the state has been corrected.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201130115950.22492-11-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.