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authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>2022-04-13 15:31:05 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2022-05-01 10:03:43 +0200
commit1a90bfd220201fbe050dfc15deaac20ca5f15638 (patch)
tree133b5392aa8b29d81ee84e2fa9c1687c996a086a /kernel/softirq.c
parent16bf5a5e1ec56474ed2a19d72f272ed09a5d3ea1 (diff)
smp: Make softirq handling RT safe in flush_smp_call_function_queue()
flush_smp_call_function_queue() invokes do_softirq() which is not available on PREEMPT_RT. flush_smp_call_function_queue() is invoked from the idle task and the migration task with preemption or interrupts disabled. So RT kernels cannot process soft interrupts in that context as that has to acquire 'sleeping spinlocks' which is not possible with preemption or interrupts disabled and forbidden from the idle task anyway. The currently known SMP function call which raises a soft interrupt is in the block layer, but this functionality is not enabled on RT kernels due to latency and performance reasons. RT could wake up ksoftirqd unconditionally, but this wants to be avoided if there were soft interrupts pending already when this is invoked in the context of the migration task. The migration task might have preempted a threaded interrupt handler which raised a soft interrupt, but did not reach the local_bh_enable() to process it. The "running" ksoftirqd might prevent the handling in the interrupt thread context which is causing latency issues. Add a new function which handles this case explicitely for RT and falls back to do_softirq() on !RT kernels. In the RT case this warns when one of the flushed SMP function calls raised a soft interrupt so this can be investigated. [ tglx: Moved the RT part out of SMP code ] Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YgKgL6aPj8aBES6G@linutronix.de Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220413133024.356509586@linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/softirq.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/softirq.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index fac801815554..9f0aef8aa9ff 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -294,6 +294,19 @@ static inline void invoke_softirq(void)
wakeup_softirqd();
}
+/*
+ * flush_smp_call_function_queue() can raise a soft interrupt in a function
+ * call. On RT kernels this is undesired and the only known functionality
+ * in the block layer which does this is disabled on RT. If soft interrupts
+ * get raised which haven't been raised before the flush, warn so it can be
+ * investigated.
+ */
+void do_softirq_post_smp_call_flush(unsigned int was_pending)
+{
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(was_pending != local_softirq_pending()))
+ invoke_softirq();
+}
+
#else /* CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT */
/*