linux/kernel/softirq.c, branch v5.1

softirq: Don't skip softirq execution when softirq thread is parking

2019-02-10T20:51:39Z

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 Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Douglas Anderson Cc: Stephen Boyd Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190128234625.78241-3-mka@chromium.org

Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-10-25T18:43:47Z

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 ...

softirq: Fix typo in __do_softirq() comments

2018-10-18T16:10:23Z

s/s/as [ mingo: Also add a missing 'the', add proper punctuation and clarify what 'swap' means here. ] Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner 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

rcu: Define RCU-bh update API in terms of RCU

2018-08-30T23:02:40Z

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

rcu: Apply RCU-bh QSes to RCU-sched and RCU-preempt when safe

2018-08-30T23:02:38Z

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: Fix !SMP issue located by kbuild test robot. ]

nohz: Fix missing tick reprogram when interrupting an inline softirq

2018-08-03T13:52:10Z

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 Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14+ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533303094-15855-1-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org

Mark HI and TASKLET softirq synchronous

2018-07-17T18:12:43Z

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 Reported-and-tested-by: Josef Griebichler Reported-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Alan Stern Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

softirq: Reorder trace_softirqs_on to prevent lockdep splat

2018-06-21T19:12:43Z

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] [ 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] 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 Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Thomas Glexiner Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: Paul McKenney Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Todd Kjos Cc: Erick Reyes Cc: Julia Cartwright Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Fixes: d59158162e032 ("tracing: Add support for preempt and irq enable/disable events") Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-06-05T02:59:22Z

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 ...

softirq: Eliminate unused cond_resched_softirq() macro

2018-05-15T17:27:35Z

The cond_resched_softirq() macro is not used anywhere in mainline, so this commit simplifies the kernel by eliminating it. Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin