[PATCH v3 00/21] arm64: Preemptible this_cpu_*() operations
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Date: 2026-09-04 16:18:13
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This series reworks arm64's this_cpu_*() operations such that they do
not need to disable preemption. The scheme is described in detail in patch 13,
and is similar to the approach Heiko Carstens applied to s390 [1], which
inspired this series.
This scheme should build and function in all kernel configurations (e.g.
regardless of KPTI, SW PAN, CNP, VA BITS), and has no dependency on new
architectural features. The fixup logic should "just work" with kprobes,
etc, and I don't expect that this will need to become more complicated.
The patches are organised as follows:
* Patches 1 to 3 are preparatory fixes for latent issues which were
found by inspection. These will need to be backported to stable, and
have appropriate Fixes tags.
* Patches 4 to 7 are preparatory improvements to code generation issues
found by inspection during development. These aren't strictly related
to the PCPU GPR scheme, and it would make sense to queue these even if
we don't go ahead with the rest of the series.
* Patches 8 to 13 are preparatory work for the PCPU GPR scheme.
* Patch 14 implements the core of the PCPU GPR scheme, with all the
necessary exception handling logic, and the addition of helpers to
begin/end a PCPU GPR critical section.
* Patches 15 to 20 convert this_cpu_*() operations over to the PCPU GPR
scheme. These changes have been made over several patches to aid
review and bisection (if necessary).
* Patch 21 removes code made redundant by earlier patches.
I've given this build-testing (with GCC and clang) and some light boot
testing.
Since v1 [2]:
* Implement necessary SDEI entry logic.
* Drop RFC tag, as I believe this is now functionally complete.
* Add patches to fix latent bugs and poor codegen (per David, and myself)
* Make gpr-num handling consistent with asm-extable.h
* Assert PCPU GPRs are distinct at compile time (per Vladimir)
* Add comments to document PCPU GPR helpers.
* Improve commit messages.
* Add tags from v1.
Since v2 [3]:
* Rebase to v7.3-rc1.
* Fix SDEI register restoration.
* Avoid -Woverflow warnings.
* Add preparatory fix for {8,16}-bit types.
* Add tags from v2.
Thanks,
Mark.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-s390/20260526055702.1429061-1-hca@linux.ibm.com/ (local)
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20260728123859.2911495-1-mark.rutland@arm.com/ (local)
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20260804170503.3513916-1-mark.rutland@arm.com/ (local)
Mark Rutland (21):
arm64: percpu: Fix this_cpu_write() casting
arm64: percpu: Fix this_cpu_and() mask generation
arm64: percpu: Fix LSE operations on {8,16}-bit types
arm64: cmpxchg: LL/SC: Avoid redundant extension
arm64: cmpxchg128: LSE: Remove redundant operands
arm64: preempt: Simplify and optimize __preempt_count_dec_and_test()
arm64: preempt: Treat should_resched() as unlikely
arm64: ptrace: Always inline pt_regs_[read,write}_reg()
arm64: percpu: Factor out percpu offset asm
arm64: gpr-num: Add wxN aliases for wN registers
arm64: gpr-num: add __GPR_NUM() helper
arm64: entry: sdei: Restore all clobberable GPRs
arm64: entry: sdei: Make 'tsk' available
arm64: percpu: Add infrastructure for preemptible this_cpu_*() ops
arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible read/write ops
arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible void RMW ops
arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible return RMW ops
arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible XCHG ops
arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible CMPXCHG ops
arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible CMPXCHG128 ops
arm64: percpu: Remove _pcp_protect*() wrappers
arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_ll_sc.h | 27 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_lse.h | 4 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/gpr-num.h | 9 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h | 462 ++++++++++++++++++++------
arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h | 29 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h | 12 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/xwreg.h | 16 +
arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 +
arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c | 38 +++
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 41 ++-
11 files changed, 497 insertions(+), 144 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/xwreg.h
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