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2025-01-20selftests/bpf: Add test case for the freeing of bpf_timerHou Tao
The main purpose of the test is to demonstrate the lock problem for the free of bpf_timer under PREEMPT_RT. When freeing a bpf_timer which is running on other CPU in bpf_timer_cancel_and_free(), hrtimer_cancel() will try to acquire a spin-lock (namely softirq_expiry_lock), however the freeing procedure has already held a raw-spin-lock. The test first creates two threads: one to start timers and the other to free timers. The start-timers thread will start the timer and then wake up the free-timers thread to free these timers when the starts complete. After freeing, the free-timer thread will wake up the start-timer thread to complete the current iteration. A loop of 10 iterations is used. Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250117101816.2101857-6-houtao@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>