Entering RCU idle mode may cause a deferred wake up of an RCU NOCB_GP kthread (rcuog) to be serviced.
Usually a local wake up happening while running the idle task is handled in one of the need_resched() checks carefully placed within the idle loop that can break to the scheduler.
Unfortunately the call to rcu_idle_enter() is already beyond the last generic need_resched() check and we may halt the CPU with a resched request unhandled, leaving the task hanging.
Fix this with splitting the rcuog wakeup handling from rcu_idle_enter() and place it before the last generic need_resched() check in the idle loop. It is then assumed that no call to call_rcu() will be performed after that in the idle loop until the CPU is put in low power mode. Further debug code will help spotting the offenders.
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney paulmck@kernel.org Fixes: 96d3fd0d315a (rcu: Break call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler and perf) Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Ingo Molnarmingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker frederic@kernel.org --- include/linux/rcupdate.h | 2 ++ kernel/rcu/tree.c | 3 --- kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 5 +++++ kernel/sched/idle.c | 3 +++ 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h index de0826411311..4068234fb303 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h @@ -104,8 +104,10 @@ static inline void rcu_user_exit(void) { }
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU void rcu_init_nohz(void); +void rcu_nocb_flush_deferred_wakeup(void); #else /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU */ static inline void rcu_init_nohz(void) { } +static inline void rcu_nocb_flush_deferred_wakeup(void) { } #endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU */
/** diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c index b9fff18d14d9..b6e1377774e3 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c @@ -670,10 +670,7 @@ static noinstr void rcu_eqs_enter(bool user) */ void rcu_idle_enter(void) { - struct rcu_data *rdp = this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data); - lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled(); - do_nocb_deferred_wakeup(rdp); rcu_eqs_enter(false); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_idle_enter); diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h index 7e291ce0a1d6..d5b38c28abd1 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h @@ -2187,6 +2187,11 @@ static void do_nocb_deferred_wakeup(struct rcu_data *rdp) do_nocb_deferred_wakeup_common(rdp); }
+void rcu_nocb_flush_deferred_wakeup(void) +{ + do_nocb_deferred_wakeup(this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data)); +} + void __init rcu_init_nohz(void) { int cpu; diff --git a/kernel/sched/idle.c b/kernel/sched/idle.c index 305727ea0677..b601a3aa2152 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/idle.c +++ b/kernel/sched/idle.c @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ __setup("hlt", cpu_idle_nopoll_setup); static noinline int __cpuidle cpu_idle_poll(void) { trace_cpu_idle(0, smp_processor_id()); + rcu_nocb_flush_deferred_wakeup(); stop_critical_timings(); rcu_idle_enter(); local_irq_enable(); @@ -173,6 +174,8 @@ static void cpuidle_idle_call(void) struct cpuidle_driver *drv = cpuidle_get_cpu_driver(dev); int next_state, entered_state;
+ rcu_nocb_flush_deferred_wakeup(); + /* * Check if the idle task must be rescheduled. If it is the * case, exit the function after re-enabling the local irq.