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2021-08-10genirq: Change force_irqthreads to a static keyTanner Love
With CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING=y, testing the boolean force_irqthreads could incur a cache line miss in invoke_softirq() and other places. Replace the test with a static key to avoid the potential cache miss. [ tglx: Dropped the IDE part, removed the export and updated blk-mq ] Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tanner Love <tannerlove@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210602180338.3324213-1-tannerlove.kernel@gmail.com
2021-06-18sched: Introduce task_is_running()Peter Zijlstra
Replace a bunch of 'p->state == TASK_RUNNING' with a new helper: task_is_running(p). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611082838.222401495@infradead.org
2021-06-18sched: Unbreak wakeupsPeter Zijlstra
Remove broken task->state references and let wake_up_process() DTRT. The anti-pattern in these patches breaks the ordering of ->state vs COND as described in the comment near set_current_state() and can lead to missed wakeups: (OoO load, observes RUNNING)<-. for (;;) { | t->state = UNINTERRUPTIBLE; | smp_mb(); ,-----> | (observes !COND) | / if (COND) ---------' | COND = 1; break; `- if (t->state != RUNNING) wake_up_process(t); // not done schedule(); // forever waiting } t->state = TASK_RUNNING; Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611082838.160855222@infradead.org
2021-04-28Merge tag 'core-rcu-2021-04-28' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: - Support for "N" as alias for last bit in bitmap parsing library (eg using syntax like "nohz_full=2-N") - kvfree_rcu updates - mm_dump_obj() updates. (One of these is to mm, but was suggested by Andrew Morton.) - RCU callback offloading update - Polling RCU grace-period interfaces - Realtime-related RCU updates - Tasks-RCU updates - Torture-test updates - Torture-test scripting updates - Miscellaneous fixes * tag 'core-rcu-2021-04-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (77 commits) rcutorture: Test start_poll_synchronize_rcu() and poll_state_synchronize_rcu() rcu: Provide polling interfaces for Tiny RCU grace periods torture: Fix kvm.sh --datestamp regex check torture: Consolidate qemu-cmd duration editing into kvm-transform.sh torture: Print proper vmlinux path for kvm-again.sh runs torture: Make TORTURE_TRUST_MAKE available in kvm-again.sh environment torture: Make kvm-transform.sh update jitter commands torture: Add --duration argument to kvm-again.sh torture: Add kvm-again.sh to rerun a previous torture-test torture: Create a "batches" file for build reuse torture: De-capitalize TORTURE_SUITE torture: Make upper-case-only no-dot no-slash scenario names official torture: Rename SRCU-t and SRCU-u to avoid lowercase characters torture: Remove no-mpstat error message torture: Record kvm-test-1-run.sh and kvm-test-1-run-qemu.sh PIDs torture: Record jitter start/stop commands torture: Extract kvm-test-1-run-qemu.sh from kvm-test-1-run.sh torture: Record TORTURE_KCONFIG_GDB_ARG in qemu-cmd torture: Abstract jitter.sh start/stop into scripts rcu: Provide polling interfaces for Tree RCU grace periods ...
2021-03-17tick/sched: Prevent false positive softirq pending warnings on RTThomas Gleixner
On RT a task which has soft interrupts disabled can block on a lock and schedule out to idle while soft interrupts are pending. This triggers the warning in the NOHZ idle code which complains about going idle with pending soft interrupts. But as the task is blocked soft interrupt processing is temporarily blocked as well which means that such a warning is a false positive. To prevent that check the per CPU state which indicates that a scheduled out task has soft interrupts disabled. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210309085727.527563866@linutronix.de
2021-03-17softirq: Make softirq control and processing RT awareThomas Gleixner
Provide a local lock based serialization for soft interrupts on RT which allows the local_bh_disabled() sections and servicing soft interrupts to be preemptible. Provide the necessary inline helpers which allow to reuse the bulk of the softirq processing code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210309085727.426370483@linutronix.de
2021-03-17softirq: Move various protections into inline helpersThomas Gleixner
To allow reuse of the bulk of softirq processing code for RT and to avoid #ifdeffery all over the place, split protections for various code sections out into inline helpers so the RT variant can just replace them in one go. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210309085727.310118772@linutronix.de
2021-03-17tasklets: Prevent tasklet_unlock_spin_wait() deadlock on RTThomas Gleixner
tasklet_unlock_spin_wait() spin waits for the TASKLET_STATE_SCHED bit in the tasklet state to be cleared. This works on !RT nicely because the corresponding execution can only happen on a different CPU. On RT softirq processing is preemptible, therefore a task preempting the softirq processing thread can spin forever. Prevent this by invoking local_bh_disable()/enable() inside the loop. In case that the softirq processing thread was preempted by the current task, current will block on the local lock which yields the CPU to the preempted softirq processing thread. If the tasklet is processed on a different CPU then the local_bh_disable()/enable() pair is just a waste of processor cycles. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210309084241.988908275@linutronix.de
2021-03-17tasklets: Replace spin wait in tasklet_kill()Peter Zijlstra
tasklet_kill() spin waits for TASKLET_STATE_SCHED to be cleared invoking yield() from inside the loop. yield() is an ill defined mechanism and the result might still be wasting CPU cycles in a tight loop which is especially painful in a guest when the CPU running the tasklet is scheduled out. tasklet_kill() is used in teardown paths and not performance critical at all. Replace the spin wait with wait_var_event(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210309084241.890532921@linutronix.de
2021-03-17tasklets: Replace spin wait in tasklet_unlock_wait()Peter Zijlstra
tasklet_unlock_wait() spin waits for TASKLET_STATE_RUN to be cleared. This is wasting CPU cycles in a tight loop which is especially painful in a guest when the CPU running the tasklet is scheduled out. tasklet_unlock_wait() is invoked from tasklet_kill() which is used in teardown paths and not performance critical at all. Replace the spin wait with wait_var_event(). There are no users of tasklet_unlock_wait() which are invoked from atomic contexts. The usage in tasklet_disable() has been replaced temporarily with the spin waiting variant until the atomic users are fixed up and will be converted to the sleep wait variant later. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210309084241.783936921@linutronix.de
2021-03-17softirq: s/BUG/WARN_ONCE/ on tasklet SCHED state not setDirk Behme
Replace BUG() with WARN_ONCE() on wrong tasklet state, in order to: - increase the verbosity / aid in debugging - avoid fatal/unrecoverable state Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@de.adit-jv.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210317102012.32399-1-erosca@de.adit-jv.com
2021-03-16tasklet: Remove tasklet_kill_immediateDavidlohr Bueso
Ever since RCU was converted to softirq, it has no users. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210306213658.12862-1-dave@stgolabs.net
2021-03-15softirq: Don't try waking ksoftirqd before it has been spawnedPaul E. McKenney
If there is heavy softirq activity, the softirq system will attempt to awaken ksoftirqd and will stop the traditional back-of-interrupt softirq processing. This is all well and good, but only if the ksoftirqd kthreads already exist, which is not the case during early boot, in which case the system hangs. One reproducer is as follows: tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh --allcpus --duration 2 --configs "TREE03" --kconfig "CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC=n" --bootargs "threadirqs=1" --trust-make This commit therefore adds a couple of existence checks for ksoftirqd and forces back-of-interrupt softirq processing when ksoftirqd does not yet exist. With this change, the above test passes. Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Reported-by: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [ paulmck: Remove unneeded check per Sebastian Siewior feedback. ] Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-02-10softirq: Move do_softirq_own_stack() to generic asm headerThomas Gleixner
To avoid include recursion hell move the do_softirq_own_stack() related content into a generic asm header and include it from all places in arch/ which need the prototype. This allows architectures to provide an inline implementation of do_softirq_own_stack() without introducing a lot of #ifdeffery all over the place. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210210002513.289960691@linutronix.de
2020-12-27Merge tag 'locking-urgent-2020-12-27' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull locking fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Misc fixes/updates: - Fix static keys usage in module __init sections - Add separate MAINTAINERS entry for static branches/calls - Fix lockdep splat with CONFIG_PREEMPTIRQ_EVENTS=y tracing" * tag 'locking-urgent-2020-12-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: softirq: Avoid bad tracing / lockdep interaction jump_label/static_call: Add MAINTAINERS jump_label: Fix usage in module __init
2020-12-18softirq: Avoid bad tracing / lockdep interactionPeter Zijlstra
Similar to commit: 1a63dcd8765b ("softirq: Reorder trace_softirqs_on to prevent lockdep splat") __local_bh_enable_ip() can also call into tracing with inconsistent state. Unlike that commit we don't need to bother about the tracepoint because 'cnt-1' never matches preempt_count() (by construction). Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201218154519.GW3092@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
2020-12-02irq: Call tick_irq_enter() inside HARDIRQ_OFFSETFrederic Weisbecker
Now that account_hardirq_enter() is called after HARDIRQ_OFFSET has been incremented, there is nothing left that prevents us from also moving tick_irq_enter() after HARDIRQ_OFFSET is incremented. The desired outcome is to remove the nasty hack that prevents softirqs from being raised through ksoftirqd instead of the hardirq bottom half. Also tick_irq_enter() then becomes appropriately covered by lockdep. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201202115732.27827-6-frederic@kernel.org
2020-12-02irqtime: Move irqtime entry accounting after irq offset incrementationFrederic Weisbecker
IRQ time entry is currently accounted before HARDIRQ_OFFSET or SOFTIRQ_OFFSET are incremented. This is convenient to decide to which index the cputime to account is dispatched. Unfortunately it prevents tick_irq_enter() from being called under HARDIRQ_OFFSET because tick_irq_enter() has to be called before the IRQ entry accounting due to the necessary clock catch up. As a result we don't benefit from appropriate lockdep coverage on tick_irq_enter(). To prepare for fixing this, move the IRQ entry cputime accounting after the preempt offset is incremented. This requires the cputime dispatch code to handle the extra offset. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201202115732.27827-5-frederic@kernel.org
2020-11-23softirq: Move related code into one sectionThomas Gleixner
To prepare for adding a RT aware variant of softirq serialization and processing move related code into one section so the necessary #ifdeffery is reduced to one. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113141733.974214480@linutronix.de
2020-09-16softirq: Add debug check to __raise_softirq_irqoff()Jiafei Pan
__raise_softirq_irqoff() must be called with interrupts disabled to protect the per CPU softirq pending state update against an interrupt and soft interrupt handling on return from interrupt. Add a lockdep assertion to validate the calling convention. [ tglx: Massaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Jiafei Pan <Jiafei.Pan@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200814045522.45719-1-Jiafei.Pan@nxp.com
2020-08-04Merge tag 'tasklets-v5.9-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux Pull tasklets API update from Kees Cook: "These are the infrastructure updates needed to support converting the tasklet API to something more modern (and hopefully for removal further down the road). There is a 300-patch series waiting in the wings to get set out to subsystem maintainers, but these changes need to be present in the kernel first. Since this has some treewide changes, I carried this series for -next instead of paining Thomas with it in -tip, but it's got his Ack. This is similar to the timer_struct modernization from a while back, but not nearly as messy (I hope). :) - Prepare for tasklet API modernization (Romain Perier, Allen Pais, Kees Cook)" * tag 'tasklets-v5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: tasklet: Introduce new initialization API treewide: Replace DECLARE_TASKLET() with DECLARE_TASKLET_OLD() usb: gadget: udc: Avoid tasklet passing a global
2020-07-30tasklet: Introduce new initialization APIRomain Perier
Nowadays, modern kernel subsystems that use callbacks pass the data structure associated with a given callback as argument to the callback. The tasklet subsystem remains one which passes an arbitrary unsigned long to the callback function. This has several problems: - This keeps an extra field for storing the argument in each tasklet data structure, it bloats the tasklet_struct structure with a redundant .data field - No type checking can be performed on this argument. Instead of using container_of() like other callback subsystems, it forces callbacks to do explicit type cast of the unsigned long argument into the required object type. - Buffer overflows can overwrite the .func and the .data field, so an attacker can easily overwrite the function and its first argument to whatever it wants. Add a new tasklet initialization API, via DECLARE_TASKLET() and tasklet_setup(), which will replace the existing ones. This work is greatly inspired by the timer_struct conversion series, see commit e99e88a9d2b0 ("treewide: setup_timer() -> timer_setup()") To avoid problems with both -Wcast-function-type (which is enabled in the kernel via -Wextra is several subsystems), and with mismatched function prototypes when build with Control Flow Integrity enabled, this adds the "use_callback" member to let the tasklet caller choose which union member to call through. Once all old API uses are removed, this and the .data member will be removed as well. (On 64-bit this does not grow the struct size as the new member fills the hole after atomic_t, which is also "int" sized.) Signed-off-by: Romain Perier <romain.perier@gmail.com> Co-developed-by: Allen Pais <allen.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.lkml@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2020-07-10lockdep: Remove lockdep_hardirq{s_enabled,_context}() argumentPeter Zijlstra
Now that the macros use per-cpu data, we no longer need the argument. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623083721.571835311@infradead.org
2020-07-10lockdep: Change hardirq{s_enabled,_context} to per-cpu variablesPeter Zijlstra
Currently all IRQ-tracking state is in task_struct, this means that task_struct needs to be defined before we use it. Especially for lockdep_assert_irq*() this can lead to header-hell. Move the hardirq state into per-cpu variables to avoid the task_struct dependency. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623083721.512673481@infradead.org
2020-06-11x86/entry: Clarify irq_{enter,exit}_rcu()Peter Zijlstra
Because: irq_enter_rcu() includes lockdep_hardirq_enter() irq_exit_rcu() does *NOT* include lockdep_hardirq_exit() Which resulted in two 'stray' lockdep_hardirq_exit() calls in idtentry.h, and me spending a long time trying to find the matching enter calls. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200529213321.359433429@infradead.org
2020-06-11genirq: Provide irq_enter/exit_rcu()Thomas Gleixner
irq_enter()/exit() currently include RCU handling. To properly separate the RCU handling code, provide variants which contain only the non-RCU related functionality. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200521202117.567023613@linutronix.de
2020-03-21lockdep: Rename trace_{hard,soft}{irq_context,irqs_enabled}()Peter Zijlstra
Continue what commit: d820ac4c2fa8 ("locking: rename trace_softirq_[enter|exit] => lockdep_softirq_[enter|exit]") started, rename these to avoid confusing them with tracepoints. git grep -l "trace_\(soft\|hard\)\(irq_context\|irqs_enabled\)" | while read file; do sed -ie 's/trace_\(soft\|hard\)\(irq_context\|irqs_enabled\)/lockdep_\1\2/g' $file; done Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200320115859.178626842@infradead.org
2020-03-21lockdep: Rename trace_softirqs_{on,off}()Peter Zijlstra
Continue what commit: d820ac4c2fa8 ("locking: rename trace_softirq_[enter|exit] => lockdep_softirq_[enter|exit]") started, rename these to avoid confusing them with tracepoints. git grep -l "trace_softirqs_\(on\|off\)" | while read file; do sed -ie 's/trace_softirqs_\(on\|off\)/lockdep_softirqs_\1/g' $file; done Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200320115859.119434738@infradead.org
2020-03-21lockdep: Rename trace_hardirq_{enter,exit}()Thomas Gleixner
Continue what commit: d820ac4c2fa8 ("locking: rename trace_softirq_[enter|exit] => lockdep_softirq_[enter|exit]") started, rename these to avoid confusing them with tracepoints. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200320115859.060481361@infradead.org
2019-07-08Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner: "The irq departement provides the usual mixed bag: Core: - Further improvements to the irq timings code which aims to predict the next interrupt for power state selection to achieve better latency/power balance - Add interrupt statistics to the core NMI handlers - The usual small fixes and cleanups Drivers: - Support for Renesas RZ/A1, Annapurna Labs FIC, Meson-G12A SoC and Amazon Gravition AMR/GIC interrupt controllers. - Rework of the Renesas INTC controller driver - ACPI support for Socionext SoCs - Enhancements to the CSKY interrupt controller - The usual small fixes and cleanups" * 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits) irq/irqdomain: Fix comment typo genirq: Update irq stats from NMI handlers irqchip/gic-pm: Remove PM_CLK dependency irqchip/al-fic: Introduce Amazon's Annapurna Labs Fabric Interrupt Controller Driver dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add Amazon's Annapurna Labs FIC softirq: Use __this_cpu_write() in takeover_tasklets() irqchip/mbigen: Stop printing kernel addresses irqchip/gic: Add dependency for ARM_GIC_MAX_NR genirq/affinity: Remove unused argument from [__]irq_build_affinity_masks() genirq/timings: Add selftest for next event computation genirq/timings: Add selftest for irqs circular buffer genirq/timings: Add selftest for circular array genirq/timings: Encapsulate storing function genirq/timings: Encapsulate timings push genirq/timings: Optimize the period detection speed genirq/timings: Fix timings buffer inspection genirq/timings: Fix next event index function irqchip/qcom: Use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc() irqchip/irq-csky-mpintc: Remove unnecessary loop in interrupt handler dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Update csky mpintc ...
2019-06-23softirq: Use __this_cpu_write() in takeover_tasklets()Muchun Song
The code is executed with interrupts disabled, so it's safe to use __this_cpu_write(). [ tglx: Massaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <smuchun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: joel@joelfernandes.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: frederic@kernel.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: alexander.levin@verizon.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190618143305.2038-1-smuchun@gmail.com
2019-06-05treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 430Thomas Gleixner
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): distribute under gplv2 extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 8 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel <armijn@tjaldur.nl> Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531190114.475576622@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-03-22softirq: Remove tasklet_hrtimerThomas Gleixner
There are no more users of this interface. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190301224821.29843-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de
2019-02-10softirq: Don't skip softirq execution when softirq thread is parkingMatthias Kaehlcke
When a CPU is unplugged the kernel threads of this CPU are parked (see smpboot_park_threads()). kthread_park() is used to mark each thread as parked and wake it up, so it can complete the process of parking itselfs (see smpboot_thread_fn()). If local softirqs are pending on interrupt exit invoke_softirq() is called to process the softirqs, however it skips processing when the softirq kernel thread of the local CPU is scheduled to run. The softirq kthread is one of the threads that is parked when a CPU is unplugged. Parking the kthread wakes it up, however only to complete the parking process, not to process the pending softirqs. Hence processing of softirqs at the end of an interrupt is skipped, but not done elsewhere, which can result in warnings about pending softirqs when a CPU is unplugged: /sys/devices/system/cpu # echo 0 > cpu4/online [ ... ] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 02 [ ... ] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 202 [ ... ] CPU4: shutdown [ ... ] psci: CPU4 killed. Don't skip processing of softirqs at the end of an interrupt when the softirq thread of the CPU is parking. Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Cc: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190128234625.78241-3-mka@chromium.org
2018-10-25Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner: "The interrupt brigade came up with the following updates: - Driver for the Marvell System Error Interrupt machinery - Overhaul of the GIC-V3 ITS driver - Small updates and fixes all over the place" * 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits) genirq: Fix race on spurious interrupt detection softirq: Fix typo in __do_softirq() comments genirq: Fix grammar s/an /a / irqchip/gic: Unify GIC priority definitions irqchip/gic-v3: Remove acknowledge loop dt-bindings/interrupt-controller: Add documentation for Marvell SEI controller dt-bindings/interrupt-controller: Update Marvell ICU bindings irqchip/irq-mvebu-icu: Add support for System Error Interrupts (SEI) arm64: marvell: Enable SEI driver irqchip/irq-mvebu-sei: Add new driver for Marvell SEI irqchip/irq-mvebu-icu: Support ICU subnodes irqchip/irq-mvebu-icu: Disociate ICU and NSR irqchip/irq-mvebu-icu: Clarify the reset operation of configured interrupts irqchip/irq-mvebu-icu: Fix wrong private data retrieval dt-bindings/interrupt-controller: Fix Marvell ICU length in the example genirq/msi: Allow creation of a tree-based irqdomain for platform-msi dt-bindings: irqchip: renesas-irqc: Document r8a7744 support dt-bindings: irqchip: renesas-irqc: Document R-Car E3 support irqchip/pdc: Setup all edge interrupts as rising edge at GIC irqchip/gic-v3-its: Allow use of LPI tables in reserved memory ...
2018-10-18softirq: Fix typo in __do_softirq() commentsYangtao Li
s/s/as [ mingo: Also add a missing 'the', add proper punctuation and clarify what 'swap' means here. ] Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: alexander.levin@verizon.com Cc: frederic@kernel.org Cc: joel@joelfernandes.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181018142133.12341-1-tiny.windzz@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-08-30rcu: Define RCU-bh update API in terms of RCUPaul E. McKenney
Now that the main RCU API knows about softirq disabling and softirq's quiescent states, the RCU-bh update code can be dispensed with. This commit therefore removes the RCU-bh update-side implementation and defines RCU-bh's update-side API in terms of that of either RCU-preempt or RCU-sched, depending on the setting of the CONFIG_PREEMPT Kconfig option. In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y this has the knock-on effect of reducing by one the number of rcuo kthreads per CPU. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Apply RCU-bh QSes to RCU-sched and RCU-preempt when safePaul E. McKenney
One necessary step towards consolidating the three flavors of RCU is to make sure that the resulting consolidated "one flavor to rule them all" correctly handles networking denial-of-service attacks. One thing that allows RCU-bh to do so is that __do_softirq() invokes rcu_bh_qs() every so often, and so something similar has to happen for consolidated RCU. This must be done carefully. For example, if a preemption-disabled region of code takes an interrupt which does softirq processing before returning, consolidated RCU must ignore the resulting rcu_bh_qs() invocations -- preemption is still disabled, and that means an RCU reader for the consolidated flavor. This commit therefore creates a new rcu_softirq_qs() that is called only from the ksoftirqd task, thus avoiding the interrupted-a-preempted-region problem. This new rcu_softirq_qs() function invokes rcu_sched_qs(), rcu_preempt_qs(), and rcu_preempt_deferred_qs(). The latter call handles any deferred quiescent states. Note that __do_softirq() still invokes rcu_bh_qs(). It will continue to do so until a later stage of cleanup when the RCU-bh flavor is removed. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Fix !SMP issue located by kbuild test robot. ]
2018-08-03nohz: Fix missing tick reprogram when interrupting an inline softirqFrederic Weisbecker
The full nohz tick is reprogrammed in irq_exit() only if the exit is not in a nesting interrupt. This stands as an optimization: whether a hardirq or a softirq is interrupted, the tick is going to be reprogrammed when necessary at the end of the inner interrupt, with even potential new updates on the timer queue. When soft interrupts are interrupted, it's assumed that they are executing on the tail of an interrupt return. In that case tick_nohz_irq_exit() is called after softirq processing to take care of the tick reprogramming. But the assumption is wrong: softirqs can be processed inline as well, ie: outside of an interrupt, like in a call to local_bh_enable() or from ksoftirqd. Inline softirqs don't reprogram the tick once they are done, as opposed to interrupt tail softirq processing. So if a tick interrupts an inline softirq processing, the next timer will neither be reprogrammed from the interrupting tick's irq_exit() nor after the interrupted softirq processing. This situation may leave the tick unprogrammed while timers are armed. To fix this, simply keep reprogramming the tick even if a softirq has been interrupted. That can be optimized further, but for now correctness is more important. Note that new timers enqueued in nohz_full mode after a softirq gets interrupted will still be handled just fine through self-IPIs triggered by the timer code. Reported-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14+ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533303094-15855-1-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
2018-07-17Mark HI and TASKLET softirq synchronousLinus Torvalds
Way back in 4.9, we committed 4cd13c21b207 ("softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job"), and ever since we've had small nagging issues with it. For example, we've had: 1ff688209e2e ("watchdog: core: make sure the watchdog_worker is not deferred") 8d5755b3f77b ("watchdog: softdog: fire watchdog even if softirqs do not get to run") 217f69743681 ("net: busy-poll: allow preemption in sk_busy_loop()") all of which worked around some of the effects of that commit. The DVB people have also complained that the commit causes excessive USB URB latencies, which seems to be due to the USB code using tasklets to schedule USB traffic. This seems to be an issue mainly when already living on the edge, but waiting for ksoftirqd to handle it really does seem to cause excessive latencies. Now Hanna Hawa reports that this issue isn't just limited to USB URB and DVB, but also causes timeout problems for the Marvell SoC team: "I'm facing kernel panic issue while running raid 5 on sata disks connected to Macchiatobin (Marvell community board with Armada-8040 SoC with 4 ARMv8 cores of CA72) Raid 5 built with Marvell DMA engine and async_tx mechanism (ASYNC_TX_DMA [=y]); the DMA driver (mv_xor_v2) uses a tasklet to clean the done descriptors from the queue" The latency problem causes a panic: mv_xor_v2 f0400000.xor: dma_sync_wait: timeout! Kernel panic - not syncing: async_tx_quiesce: DMA error waiting for transaction We've discussed simply just reverting the original commit entirely, and also much more involved solutions (with per-softirq threads etc). This patch is intentionally stupid and fairly limited, because the issue still remains, and the other solutions either got sidetracked or had other issues. We should probably also consider the timer softirqs to be synchronous and not be delayed to ksoftirqd (since they were the issue with the earlier watchdog problems), but that should be done as a separate patch. This does only the tasklet cases. Reported-and-tested-by: Hanna Hawa <hannah@marvell.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Josef Griebichler <griebichler.josef@gmx.at> Reported-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-06-21softirq: Reorder trace_softirqs_on to prevent lockdep splatJoel Fernandes (Google)
I'm able to reproduce a lockdep splat with config options: CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y and CONFIG_PREEMPTIRQ_EVENTS=y $ echo 1 > /d/tracing/events/preemptirq/preempt_enable/enable [ 26.112609] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(current->softirqs_enabled) [ 26.112636] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 118 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3854 [...] [ 26.144229] Call Trace: [ 26.144926] <IRQ> [ 26.145506] lock_acquire+0x55/0x1b0 [ 26.146499] ? __do_softirq+0x46f/0x4d9 [ 26.147571] ? __do_softirq+0x46f/0x4d9 [ 26.148646] trace_preempt_on+0x8f/0x240 [ 26.149744] ? trace_preempt_on+0x4d/0x240 [ 26.150862] ? __do_softirq+0x46f/0x4d9 [ 26.151930] preempt_count_sub+0x18a/0x1a0 [ 26.152985] __do_softirq+0x46f/0x4d9 [ 26.153937] irq_exit+0x68/0xe0 [ 26.154755] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x271/0x280 [ 26.156056] apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20 [ 26.157105] </IRQ> The issue was this: preempt_count = 1 << SOFTIRQ_SHIFT __local_bh_enable(cnt = 1 << SOFTIRQ_SHIFT) { if (softirq_count() == (cnt && SOFTIRQ_MASK)) { trace_softirqs_on() { current->softirqs_enabled = 1; } } preempt_count_sub(cnt) { trace_preempt_on() { tracepoint() { rcu_read_lock_sched() { // jumps into lockdep Where preempt_count still has softirqs disabled, but current->softirqs_enabled is true, and we get a splat. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180607201143.247775-1-joel@joelfernandes.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Glexiner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com> Cc: Erick Reyes <erickreyes@google.com> Cc: Julia Cartwright <julia@ni.com> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Fixes: d59158162e032 ("tracing: Add support for preempt and irq enable/disable events") Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-06-04Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Consolidation of softirq pending: The softirq mask and its accessors/mutators have many implementations scattered around many architectures. Most do the same things consisting in a field in a per-cpu struct (often irq_cpustat_t) accessed through per-cpu ops. We can provide instead a generic efficient version that most of them can use. In fact s390 is the only exception because the field is stored in lowcore. - Support for level!?! triggered MSI (ARM) Over the past couple of years, we've seen some SoCs coming up with ways of signalling level interrupts using a new flavor of MSIs, where the MSI controller uses two distinct messages: one that raises a virtual line, and one that lowers it. The target MSI controller is in charge of maintaining the state of the line. This allows for a much simplified HW signal routing (no need to have hundreds of discrete lines to signal level interrupts if you already have a memory bus), but results in a departure from the current idea the kernel has of MSIs. - Support for Meson-AXG GPIO irqchip - Large stm32 irqchip rework (suspend/resume, hierarchical domains) - More SPDX conversions * 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits) ARM: dts: stm32: Add exti support to stm32mp157 pinctrl ARM: dts: stm32: Add exti support for stm32mp157c pinctrl/stm32: Add irq_eoi for stm32gpio irqchip irqchip/stm32: Add suspend/resume support for hierarchy domain irqchip/stm32: Add stm32mp1 support with hierarchy domain irqchip/stm32: Prepare common functions irqchip/stm32: Add host and driver data structures irqchip/stm32: Add suspend support irqchip/stm32: Add falling pending register support irqchip/stm32: Checkpatch fix irqchip/stm32: Optimizes and cleans up stm32-exti irq_domain irqchip/meson-gpio: Add support for Meson-AXG SoCs dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: New binding for Meson-AXG SoC dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Fix the double quotes softirq/s390: Move default mutators of overwritten softirq mask to s390 softirq/x86: Switch to generic local_softirq_pending() implementation softirq/sparc: Switch to generic local_softirq_pending() implementation softirq/powerpc: Switch to generic local_softirq_pending() implementation softirq/parisc: Switch to generic local_softirq_pending() implementation softirq/ia64: Switch to generic local_softirq_pending() implementation ...
2018-05-15softirq: Eliminate unused cond_resched_softirq() macroPaul E. McKenney
The cond_resched_softirq() macro is not used anywhere in mainline, so this commit simplifies the kernel by eliminating it. Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
2018-05-14softirq/core: Turn default irq_cpustat_t to standard per-cpuFrederic Weisbecker
In order to optimize and consolidate softirq mask accesses, let's convert the default irq_cpustat_t implementation to per-CPU standard API. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1525786706-22846-5-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-03-09softirq: Consolidate common code in tasklet_[hi]_action()Ingo Molnar
tasklet_action() + tasklet_hi_action() are almost identical. Move the common code from both function into __tasklet_action_common() and let both functions invoke it with different arguments. [ bigeasy: Splitted out from RT's "tasklet: Prevent tasklets from going into infinite spin in RT" and added commit message] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Julia Cartwright <juliac@eso.teric.us> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180227164808.10093-3-bigeasy@linutronix.de
2018-03-09softirq: Consolidate common code in __tasklet_[hi]_schedule()Ingo Molnar
__tasklet_schedule() and __tasklet_hi_schedule() are almost identical. Move the common code from both function into __tasklet_schedule_common() and let both functions invoke it with different arguments. [ bigeasy: Splitted out from RT's "tasklet: Prevent tasklets from going into infinite spin in RT" and added commit message. Use this_cpu_ptr(headp) in __tasklet_schedule_common() as suggested by Julia Cartwright ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Julia Cartwright <juliac@eso.teric.us> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180227164808.10093-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
2017-12-04softirq: Eliminate cond_resched_rcu_qs() in favor of cond_resched()Paul E. McKenney
Now that cond_resched() also provides RCU quiescent states when needed, it can be used in place of cond_resched_rcu_qs(). This commit therefore makes this change. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-11-15kmemcheck: rip it outLevin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)
Fix up makefiles, remove references, and git rm kmemcheck. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-4-alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Tim Hansen <devtimhansen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-08irq/softirqs: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabledFrederic Weisbecker
Use lockdep to check that IRQs are enabled or disabled as expected. This way the sanity check only shows overhead when concurrency correctness debug code is enabled. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David S . Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509980490-4285-3-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-04-11sched/core: Remove 'task' parameter and rename tsk_restore_flags() to ↵NeilBrown
current_restore_flags() It is not safe for one thread to modify the ->flags of another thread as there is no locking that can protect the update. So tsk_restore_flags(), which takes a task pointer and modifies the flags, is an invitation to do the wrong thing. All current users pass "current" as the task, so no developers have accepted that invitation. It would be best to ensure it remains that way. So rename tsk_restore_flags() to current_restore_flags() and don't pass in a task_struct pointer. Always operate on current->flags. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>