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authorJinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>2026-01-28 11:19:33 +0800
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>2026-01-30 15:38:10 +0100
commit31c9387d0d84bc1d643a0c30155b6d92d05c92fc (patch)
tree455198e1fcb8e9381fd02fc444a1113ddb0a4979 /include/linux
parent578b21fd3ab2d9901ce40ed802e428a41a40610d (diff)
entry: Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter()
After switching ARM64 to the generic entry code, a syscall_exit_work() appeared as a profiling hotspot because it is not inlined. Inlining both syscall_trace_enter() and syscall_exit_work() provides a performance gain when any of the work items is enabled. With audit enabled this results in a ~4% performance gain for perf bench basic syscall on a kunpeng920 system: | Metric | Baseline | Inlined | Change | | ---------- | ----------- | ----------- | ------ | | Total time | 2.353 [sec] | 2.264 [sec] | ↓3.8% | | usecs/op | 0.235374 | 0.226472 | ↓3.8% | | ops/sec | 4,248,588 | 4,415,554 | ↑3.9% | Small gains can be observed on x86 as well, though the generated code optimizes for the work case, which is counterproductive for high performance scenarios where such entry/exit work is usually avoided. Avoid this by marking the work check in syscall_enter_from_user_mode_work() unlikely, which is what the corresponding check in the exit path does already. [ tglx: Massage changelog and add the unlikely() ] Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128031934.3906955-14-ruanjinjie@huawei.com
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/entry-common.h94
1 files changed, 92 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/entry-common.h b/include/linux/entry-common.h
index bea207e32c58..e67e3afe39ad 100644
--- a/include/linux/entry-common.h
+++ b/include/linux/entry-common.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
#ifndef __LINUX_ENTRYCOMMON_H
#define __LINUX_ENTRYCOMMON_H
+#include <linux/audit.h>
#include <linux/irq-entry-common.h>
#include <linux/livepatch.h>
#include <linux/ptrace.h>
@@ -63,7 +64,58 @@ static __always_inline int arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry(struct pt_regs *regs
}
#endif
-long syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long work);
+bool syscall_user_dispatch(struct pt_regs *regs);
+long trace_syscall_enter(struct pt_regs *regs, long syscall);
+void trace_syscall_exit(struct pt_regs *regs, long ret);
+
+static inline void syscall_enter_audit(struct pt_regs *regs, long syscall)
+{
+ if (unlikely(audit_context())) {
+ unsigned long args[6];
+
+ syscall_get_arguments(current, regs, args);
+ audit_syscall_entry(syscall, args[0], args[1], args[2], args[3]);
+ }
+}
+
+static __always_inline long syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long work)
+{
+ long syscall, ret = 0;
+
+ /*
+ * Handle Syscall User Dispatch. This must comes first, since
+ * the ABI here can be something that doesn't make sense for
+ * other syscall_work features.
+ */
+ if (work & SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH) {
+ if (syscall_user_dispatch(regs))
+ return -1L;
+ }
+
+ /* Handle ptrace */
+ if (work & (SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_TRACE | SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_EMU)) {
+ ret = arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry(regs);
+ if (ret || (work & SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_EMU))
+ return -1L;
+ }
+
+ /* Do seccomp after ptrace, to catch any tracer changes. */
+ if (work & SYSCALL_WORK_SECCOMP) {
+ ret = __secure_computing();
+ if (ret == -1L)
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+ /* Either of the above might have changed the syscall number */
+ syscall = syscall_get_nr(current, regs);
+
+ if (unlikely(work & SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT))
+ syscall = trace_syscall_enter(regs, syscall);
+
+ syscall_enter_audit(regs, syscall);
+
+ return ret ? : syscall;
+}
/**
* syscall_enter_from_user_mode_work - Check and handle work before invoking
@@ -130,6 +182,19 @@ static __always_inline long syscall_enter_from_user_mode(struct pt_regs *regs, l
return ret;
}
+/*
+ * If SYSCALL_EMU is set, then the only reason to report is when
+ * SINGLESTEP is set (i.e. PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP). This syscall
+ * instruction has been already reported in syscall_enter_from_user_mode().
+ */
+static __always_inline bool report_single_step(unsigned long work)
+{
+ if (work & SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_EMU)
+ return false;
+
+ return work & SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_EXIT_TRAP;
+}
+
/**
* arch_ptrace_report_syscall_exit - Architecture specific ptrace_report_syscall_exit()
*
@@ -155,7 +220,32 @@ static __always_inline void arch_ptrace_report_syscall_exit(struct pt_regs *regs
*
* Do one-time syscall specific work.
*/
-void syscall_exit_work(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long work);
+static __always_inline void syscall_exit_work(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long work)
+{
+ bool step;
+
+ /*
+ * If the syscall was rolled back due to syscall user dispatching,
+ * then the tracers below are not invoked for the same reason as
+ * the entry side was not invoked in syscall_trace_enter(): The ABI
+ * of these syscalls is unknown.
+ */
+ if (work & SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH) {
+ if (unlikely(current->syscall_dispatch.on_dispatch)) {
+ current->syscall_dispatch.on_dispatch = false;
+ return;
+ }
+ }
+
+ audit_syscall_exit(regs);
+
+ if (work & SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT)
+ trace_syscall_exit(regs, syscall_get_return_value(current, regs));
+
+ step = report_single_step(work);
+ if (step || work & SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_TRACE)
+ arch_ptrace_report_syscall_exit(regs, step);
+}
/**
* syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work - Handle one time work before returning to user mode