The hrtimer interrupt expires timers and at the end of the interrupt it
rearms the clockevent device for the next expiring timer.
That's obviously correct, but in the case that a expired timer sets
NEED_RESCHED the return from interrupt ends up in schedule(). If HRTICK is
enabled then schedule() will modify the hrtick timer, which causes another
reprogramming of the hardware.
That can be avoided by deferring the rearming to the return from interrupt
path and if the return results in a immediate schedule() invocation then it
can be deferred until the end of schedule(), which avoids multiple rearms
and re-evaluation of the timer wheel.
In case that the return from interrupt ends up handling softirqs before
reaching the rearm conditions in the return to user entry code functions, a
deferred rearm has to be handled before softirq handling enables interrupts
as soft interrupt handling can be long and would therefore introduce hard
to diagnose latencies to the timer interrupt.
Place the for now empty stub call right before invoking the softirq
handling routine.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224163431.142854488@kernel.org
softirqs are preemptible on PREEMPT_RT. There is synchronisation between
individual sections which disable bottom halves. This in turn means that
a forced threaded interrupt cannot preempt another forced threaded
interrupt. Instead it will PI-boost the other handler and wait for its
completion.
This is required because code within a softirq section is assumed to be
non-preemptible and may expect exclusive access to per-CPU resources
such as variables or pinned timers.
Code with such expectation has been identified and updated to use
local_lock_nested_bh() for locking of the per-CPU resource. This means the
softirq lock can be removed.
Disable the softirq synchronization, but add a new config switch
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_NEEDS_BH_LOCK which allows to re-enable the synchronized
behavior in case that there are issues, which haven't been detected yet.
The softirq_ctrl.cnt accounting remains to let the NOHZ code know if
softirqs are currently handled.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The tasklet_unlock_spin_wait() via tasklet_disable_in_atomic() is
provided for a few legacy tasklet users. The interface is used from
atomic context (which is either softirq or disabled preemption) on
non-PREEMPT_RT and relies on spinning until the tasklet callback
completes.
On PREEMPT_RT the context is never atomic but the busy polling logic
remains. It is possible that the thread invoking tasklet_unlock_spin_wait()
has higher priority than the tasklet. If both run on the same CPU the the
tasklet makes no progress and the thread trying to cancel the tasklet will
live-lock the system.
To avoid the lockup tasklet_unlock_spin_wait() uses local_bh_disable()/
enable() which utilizes the local_lock_t for synchronisation. This lock is
a central per-CPU BKL and about to be removed.
Solve this by acquire a lock in tasklet_action_common() which is held while
the tasklet's callback is invoked. This lock will be acquired from
tasklet_unlock_spin_wait() via tasklet_callback_cancel_wait_running().
After the tasklet completed tasklet_callback_sync_wait_running() drops the
lock and acquires it again. In order to avoid unlocking the lock even if
there is no cancel request, there is a cb_waiters counter which is
incremented during a cancel request. Blocking on the lock will PI-boost
the tasklet if needed, ensuring progress is made.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Since:
0c1d7a2c2d ("lockdep: Remove softirq accounting on PREEMPT_RT.")
the wait context test for mutex usage within "in softirq context" fails
as it references @softirq_context:
| wait context tests |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| rcu | raw | spin |mutex |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
in hardirq context: ok | ok | ok | ok |
in hardirq context (not threaded): ok | ok | ok | ok |
in softirq context: ok | ok | ok |FAILED|
As a fix, add lockdep map for BH disabled section. This fixes the
issue by letting us catch cases when local_bh_disable() gets called
with preemption disabled where local_lock doesn't get acquired.
In the case of "in softirq context" selftest, local_bh_disable() was
being called with preemption disable as it's early in the boot.
[ boqun: Move the lockdep annotations into __local_bh_*() to avoid false
positives because of unpaired local_bh_disable() reported by
Borislav Petkov and Peter Zijlstra, and make bh_lock_map
only exist for PREEMPT_RT. ]
[ mingo: Restored authorship and improved the bh_lock_map definition. ]
Signed-off-by: Ryo Takakura <ryotkkr98@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250321143322.79651-1-boqun.feng@gmail.com
do_softirq_post_smp_call_flush() on PREEMPT_RT kernels carries a
WARN_ON_ONCE() for any SOFTIRQ being raised from an SMP-call-function.
Since do_softirq_post_smp_call_flush() is called with preempt disabled,
raising a SOFTIRQ during flush_smp_call_function_queue() can lead to
longer preempt disabled sections.
Since commit b2a02fc43a ("smp: Optimize
send_call_function_single_ipi()") IPIs to an idle CPU in
TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG mode can be optimized out by instead setting
TIF_NEED_RESCHED bit in idle task's thread_info and relying on the
flush_smp_call_function_queue() in the idle-exit path to run the
SMP-call-function.
To trigger an idle load balancing, the scheduler queues
nohz_csd_function() responsible for triggering an idle load balancing on
a target nohz idle CPU and sends an IPI. Only now, this IPI is optimized
out and the SMP-call-function is executed from
flush_smp_call_function_queue() in do_idle() which can raise a
SCHED_SOFTIRQ to trigger the balancing.
So far, this went undetected since, the need_resched() check in
nohz_csd_function() would make it bail out of idle load balancing early
as the idle thread does not clear TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG before calling
flush_smp_call_function_queue(). The need_resched() check was added with
the intent to catch a new task wakeup, however, it has recently
discovered to be unnecessary and will be removed in the subsequent
commit after which nohz_csd_function() can raise a SCHED_SOFTIRQ from
flush_smp_call_function_queue() to trigger an idle load balance on an
idle target in TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG mode.
nohz_csd_function() bails out early if "idle_cpu()" check for the
target CPU, and does not lock the target CPU's rq until the very end,
once it has found tasks to run on the CPU and will not inhibit the
wakeup of, or running of a newly woken up higher priority task. Account
for this and prevent a WARN_ON_ONCE() when SCHED_SOFTIRQ is raised from
flush_smp_call_function_queue().
Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241119054432.6405-2-kprateek.nayak@amd.com
Pull interrupt subsystem updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Tree wide:
- Make nr_irqs static to the core code and provide accessor functions
to remove existing and prevent future aliasing problems with local
variables or function arguments of the same name.
Core code:
- Prevent freeing an interrupt in the devres code which is not
managed by devres in the first place.
- Use seq_put_decimal_ull_width() for decimal values output in
/proc/interrupts which increases performance significantly as it
avoids parsing the format strings over and over.
- Optimize raising the timer and hrtimer soft interrupts by using the
'set bit only' variants instead of the combined version which
checks whether ksoftirqd should be woken up. The latter is a
pointless exercise as both soft interrupts are raised in the
context of the timer interrupt and therefore never wake up
ksoftirqd.
- Delegate timer/hrtimer soft interrupt processing to a dedicated
thread on RT.
Timer and hrtimer soft interrupts are always processed in ksoftirqd
on RT enabled kernels. This can lead to high latencies when other
soft interrupts are delegated to ksoftirqd as well.
The separate thread allows to run them seperately under a RT
scheduling policy to reduce the latency overhead.
Drivers:
- New drivers or extensions of existing drivers to support Renesas
RZ/V2H(P), Aspeed AST27XX, T-HEAD C900 and ATMEL sam9x7 interrupt
chips
- Support for multi-cluster GICs on MIPS.
MIPS CPUs can come with multiple CPU clusters, where each CPU
cluster has its own GIC (Generic Interrupt Controller). This
requires to access the GIC of a remote cluster through a redirect
register block.
This is encapsulated into a set of helper functions to keep the
complexity out of the actual code paths which handle the GIC
details.
- Support for encrypted guests in the ARM GICV3 ITS driver
The ITS page needs to be shared with the hypervisor and therefore
must be decrypted.
- Small cleanups and fixes all over the place"
* tag 'irq-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (50 commits)
irqchip/riscv-aplic: Prevent crash when MSI domain is missing
genirq/proc: Use seq_put_decimal_ull_width() for decimal values
softirq: Use a dedicated thread for timer wakeups on PREEMPT_RT.
timers: Use __raise_softirq_irqoff() to raise the softirq.
hrtimer: Use __raise_softirq_irqoff() to raise the softirq
riscv: defconfig: Enable T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI drivers
irqchip: Add T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI driver
dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI device
irqchip/stm32mp-exti: Use of_property_present() for non-boolean properties
irqchip/mips-gic: Fix selection of GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK
irqchip/mips-gic: Prevent indirect access to clusters without CPU cores
irqchip/mips-gic: Multi-cluster support
irqchip/mips-gic: Setup defaults in each cluster
irqchip/mips-gic: Support multi-cluster in for_each_online_cpu_gic()
irqchip/mips-gic: Replace open coded online CPU iterations
genirq/irqdesc: Use str_enabled_disabled() helper in wakeup_show()
genirq/devres: Don't free interrupt which is not managed by devres
irqchip/gic-v3-its: Fix over allocation in itt_alloc_pool()
irqchip/aspeed-intc: Add AST27XX INTC support
dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add support for ASPEED AST27XX INTC
...
The timer and hrtimer soft interrupts are raised in hard interrupt
context. With threaded interrupts force enabled or on PREEMPT_RT this leads
to waking the ksoftirqd for the processing of the soft interrupt.
ksoftirqd runs as SCHED_OTHER task which means it will compete with other
tasks for CPU resources. This can introduce long delays for timer
processing on heavy loaded systems and is not desired.
Split the TIMER_SOFTIRQ and HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ processing into a dedicated
timers thread and let it run at the lowest SCHED_FIFO priority.
Wake-ups for RT tasks happen from hardirq context so only timer_list timers
and hrtimers for "regular" tasks are processed here. The higher priority
ensures that wakeups are performed before scheduling SCHED_OTHER tasks.
Using a dedicated variable to store the pending softirq bits values ensure
that the timer are not accidentally picked up by ksoftirqd and other
threaded interrupts.
It shouldn't be picked up by ksoftirqd since it runs at lower priority.
However if ksoftirqd is already running while a timer fires, then ksoftird
will be PI-boosted due to the BH-lock to ktimer's priority.
The timer thread can pick up pending softirqs from ksoftirqd but only
if the softirq load is high. It is not be desired that the picked up
softirqs are processed at SCHED_FIFO priority under high softirq load
but this can already happen by a PI-boost by a force-threaded interrupt.
[ frederic@kernel.org: rcutorture.c fixes, storm fix by introduction of
local_timers_pending() for tick_nohz_next_event() ]
[ junxiao.chang@intel.com: Ensure ktimersd gets woken up even if a
softirq is currently served. ]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> [rcutorture]
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241106150419.2593080-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de
The waiting in softirq.c is always waiting for a bit to be cleared.
This makes the bit wait functions seem more suitable.
By switching over we can rid of all explicit barriers. We also use
wait_on_bit_lock() to avoid an explicit loop.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240925053405.3960701-8-neilb@suse.de
When soft interrupt actions are called, they are passed a pointer to the
struct softirq action which contains the action's function pointer.
This pointer isn't useful, as the action callback already knows what
function it is. And since each callback handles a specific soft interrupt,
the callback also knows which soft interrupt number is running.
No soft interrupt action callback actually uses this parameter, so remove
it from the function pointer signature. This clarifies that soft interrupt
actions are global routines and makes it slightly cheaper to call them.
Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240815171549.3260003-1-csander@purestorage.com
Currently, the condition "__this_cpu_read(ksoftirqd) == current" is used to
invoke rcu_softirq_qs() in ksoftirqd tasks context for non-RT kernels.
This works correctly as long as the context is actually task context but
this condition is wrong when:
- the current task is ksoftirqd
- the task is interrupted in a RCU read side critical section
- __do_softirq() is invoked on return from interrupt
Syzkaller triggered the following scenario:
-> finish_task_switch()
-> put_task_struct_rcu_user()
-> call_rcu(&task->rcu, delayed_put_task_struct)
-> __kasan_record_aux_stack()
-> pfn_valid()
-> rcu_read_lock_sched()
<interrupt>
__irq_exit_rcu()
-> __do_softirq)()
-> if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) &&
__this_cpu_read(ksoftirqd) == current)
-> rcu_softirq_qs()
-> RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(lock_is_held(&rcu_sched_lock_map))
The rcu quiescent state is reported in the rcu-read critical section, so
the lockdep warning is triggered.
Fix this by splitting out the inner working of __do_softirq() into a helper
function which takes an argument to distinguish between ksoftirqd task
context and interrupted context and invoke it from the relevant call sites
with the proper context information and use that for the conditional
invocation of rcu_softirq_qs().
Reported-by: syzbot+dce04ed6d1438ad69656@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240427102808.29356-1-qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8f281a10-b85a-4586-9586-5bbc12dc784f@paulmck-laptop/T/#mea8aba4abfcb97bbf499d169ce7f30c4cff1b0e3
Boqun pointed out that workqueues aren't handling BH work items on offlined
CPUs. Unlike tasklet which transfers out the pending tasks from
CPUHP_SOFTIRQ_DEAD, BH workqueue would just leave them pending which is
problematic. Note that this behavior is specific to BH workqueues as the
non-BH per-CPU workers just become unbound when the CPU goes offline.
This patch fixes the issue by draining the pending BH work items from an
offlined CPU from CPUHP_SOFTIRQ_DEAD. Because work items carry more context,
it's not as easy to transfer the pending work items from one pool to
another. Instead, run BH work items which execute the offlined pools on an
online CPU.
Note that this assumes that no further BH work items will be queued on the
offlined CPUs. This assumption is shared with tasklet and should be fine for
conversions. However, this issue also exists for per-CPU workqueues which
will just keep executing work items queued after CPU offline on unbound
workers and workqueue should reject per-CPU and BH work items queued on
offline CPUs. This will be addressed separately later.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/Zdvw0HdSXcU3JZ4g@boqun-archlinux
The only generic interface to execute asynchronously in the BH context is
tasklet; however, it's marked deprecated and has some design flaws such as
the execution code accessing the tasklet item after the execution is
complete which can lead to subtle use-after-free in certain usage scenarios
and less-developed flush and cancel mechanisms.
This patch implements BH workqueues which share the same semantics and
features of regular workqueues but execute their work items in the softirq
context. As there is always only one BH execution context per CPU, none of
the concurrency management mechanisms applies and a BH workqueue can be
thought of as a convenience wrapper around softirq.
Except for the inability to sleep while executing and lack of max_active
adjustments, BH workqueues and work items should behave the same as regular
workqueues and work items.
Currently, the execution is hooked to tasklet[_hi]. However, the goal is to
convert all tasklet users over to BH workqueues. Once the conversion is
complete, tasklet can be removed and BH workqueues can directly take over
the tasklet softirqs.
system_bh[_highpri]_wq are added. As queue-wide flushing doesn't exist in
tasklet, all existing tasklet users should be able to use the system BH
workqueues without creating their own workqueues.
v3: - Add missing interrupt.h include.
v2: - Instead of using tasklets, hook directly into its softirq action
functions - tasklet[_hi]_action(). This is slightly cheaper and closer
to the eventual code structure we want to arrive at. Suggested by Lai.
- Lai also pointed out several places which need NULL worker->task
handling or can use clarification. Updated.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjDW53w4-YcSmgKC5RruiRLHmJ1sXeYdp_ZgVoBw=5byA@mail.gmail.com
Tested-by: Allen Pais <allen.lkml@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
As core scheduling introduced, a new state of idle is defined as
force idle, running idle task but nr_running greater than zero.
If a cpu is in force idle state, idle_cpu() will return zero. This
result makes sense in some scenarios, e.g., load balance,
showacpu when dumping, and judge the RCU boost kthread is starving.
But this will cause error in other scenarios, e.g., tick_irq_exit():
When force idle, rq->curr == rq->idle but rq->nr_running > 0, results
that idle_cpu() returns 0. In function tick_irq_exit(), if idle_cpu()
is 0, tick_nohz_irq_exit() will not be called, and ts->idle_active will
not become 1, which became 0 in tick_nohz_irq_enter().
ts->idle_sleeptime won't update in function update_ts_time_stats(), if
ts->idle_active is 0, which should be 1. And this bug will result that
ts->idle_sleeptime is less than the actual value, and finally will
result that the idle time in /proc/stat is less than the actual value.
To solve this problem, we introduce sched_core_idle_cpu(), which
returns 1 when force idle. We audit all users of idle_cpu(), and
change idle_cpu() into sched_core_idle_cpu() in function
tick_irq_exit().
v2-->v3: Only replace idle_cpu() with sched_core_idle_cpu() in
function tick_irq_exit(). And modify the corresponding commit log.
Signed-off-by: Cruz Zhao <CruzZhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1688011324-42406-1-git-send-email-CruzZhao@linux.alibaba.com
This reverts the following commits:
4cd13c21b2 ("softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job")
3c53776e29 ("Mark HI and TASKLET softirq synchronous")
1342d8080f ("softirq: Don't skip softirq execution when softirq thread is parking")
in a single change to avoid known bad intermediate states introduced by a
patch series reverting them individually.
Due to the mentioned commit, when the ksoftirqd threads take charge of
softirq processing, the system can experience high latencies.
In the past a few workarounds have been implemented for specific
side-effects of the initial ksoftirqd enforcement commit:
commit 1ff688209e ("watchdog: core: make sure the watchdog_worker is not deferred")
commit 8d5755b3f7 ("watchdog: softdog: fire watchdog even if softirqs do not get to run")
commit 217f697436 ("net: busy-poll: allow preemption in sk_busy_loop()")
commit 3c53776e29 ("Mark HI and TASKLET softirq synchronous")
But the latency problem still exists in real-life workloads, see the link
below.
The reverted commit intended to solve a live-lock scenario that can now be
addressed with the NAPI threaded mode, introduced with commit 29863d41bb
("net: implement threaded-able napi poll loop support"), which is nowadays
in a pretty stable status.
While a complete solution to put softirq processing under nice resource
control would be preferable, that has proven to be a very hard task. In
the short term, remove the main pain point, and also simplify a bit the
current softirq implementation.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/305d7742212cbe98621b16be782b0562f1012cb6.camel@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/57e66b364f1b6f09c9bc0316742c3b14f4ce83bd.1683526542.git.pabeni@redhat.com
Tasklets are supposed to finish their work quickly and should not block the
current running process, but it is not guaranteed that they do so.
Currently softirq_entry/exit can be used to analyse the total tasklets
execution time, but that's not helpful to track individual tasklets
execution time. That makes it hard to identify tasklet functions, which
take more time than expected.
Add tasklet_entry/exit trace point support to track individual tasklet
execution.
Trivial usage example:
# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/irq/tasklet_entry/enable
# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/irq/tasklet_exit/enable
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
# tracer: nop
#
# entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 4/4 #P:4
#
# _-----=> irqs-off/BH-disabled
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / _-=> migrate-disable
# |||| / delay
# TASK-PID CPU# ||||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | ||||| | |
<idle>-0 [003] ..s1. 314.011428: tasklet_entry: tasklet=0xffffa01ef8db2740 function=tcp_tasklet_func
<idle>-0 [003] ..s1. 314.011432: tasklet_exit: tasklet=0xffffa01ef8db2740 function=tcp_tasklet_func
<idle>-0 [003] ..s1. 314.017369: tasklet_entry: tasklet=0xffffa01ef8db2740 function=tcp_tasklet_func
<idle>-0 [003] ..s1. 314.017371: tasklet_exit: tasklet=0xffffa01ef8db2740 function=tcp_tasklet_func
Signed-off-by: Lingutla Chandrasekhar <clingutla@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: J. Avila <elavila@google.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230407230526.1685443-1-jstultz@google.com
[elavila: Port to android-mainline]
[jstultz: Rebased to upstream, cut unused trace points, added
comments for the tracepoints, reworded commit]
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
When at least one CPU runs in nohz_full mode, a dedicated timekeeper CPU
is guaranteed to stay online and to never stop its tick.
Meanwhile on some rare case, the dedicated timekeeper may be running
with interrupts disabled for a while, such as in stop_machine.
If jiffies stop being updated, a nohz_full CPU may end up endlessly
programming the next tick in the past, taking the last jiffies update
monotonic timestamp as a stale base, resulting in an tick storm.
Here is a scenario where it matters:
0) CPU 0 is the timekeeper and CPU 1 a nohz_full CPU.
1) A stop machine callback is queued to execute somewhere.
2) CPU 0 reaches MULTI_STOP_DISABLE_IRQ while CPU 1 is still in
MULTI_STOP_PREPARE. Hence CPU 0 can't do its timekeeping duty. CPU 1
can still take IRQs.
3) CPU 1 receives an IRQ which queues a timer callback one jiffy forward.
4) On IRQ exit, CPU 1 schedules the tick one jiffy forward, taking
last_jiffies_update as a base. But last_jiffies_update hasn't been
updated for 2 jiffies since the timekeeper has interrupts disabled.
5) clockevents_program_event(), which relies on ktime_get(), observes
that the expiration is in the past and therefore programs the min
delta event on the clock.
6) The tick fires immediately, goto 3)
7) Tick storm, the nohz_full CPU is drown and takes ages to reach
MULTI_STOP_DISABLE_IRQ, which is the only way out of this situation.
Solve this with unconditionally updating jiffies if the value is stale
on nohz_full IRQ entry. IRQs and other disturbances are expected to be
rare enough on nohz_full for the unconditional call to ktime_get() to
actually matter.
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026141055.57358-2-frederic@kernel.org
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
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
...
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
