From: K Prateek Nayak kprateek.nayak@amd.com
commit 6675ce20046d149e1e1ffe7e9577947dee17aad5 upstream.
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 b2a02fc43a1f ("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 Tested-by: Felix Moessbauer felix.moessbauer@siemens.com Signed-off-by: Florian Bezdeka florian.bezdeka@siemens.com ---
Newer stable branches (6.12, 6.6) got this already, 5.10 and lower are not affected.
The warning triggered for SCHED_SOFTIRQ under high network load while testing.
kernel/softirq.c | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c index a47396161843..6665f5cd60cb 100644 --- a/kernel/softirq.c +++ b/kernel/softirq.c @@ -294,17 +294,24 @@ static inline void invoke_softirq(void) wakeup_softirqd(); }
+#define SCHED_SOFTIRQ_MASK BIT(SCHED_SOFTIRQ) + /* * flush_smp_call_function_queue() can raise a soft interrupt in a function - * call. On RT kernels this is undesired and the only known functionality - * in the block layer which does this is disabled on RT. If soft interrupts - * get raised which haven't been raised before the flush, warn so it can be + * call. On RT kernels this is undesired and the only known functionalities + * are in the block layer which is disabled on RT, and in the scheduler for + * idle load balancing. If soft interrupts get raised which haven't been + * raised before the flush, warn if it is not a SCHED_SOFTIRQ so it can be * investigated. */ void do_softirq_post_smp_call_flush(unsigned int was_pending) { - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(was_pending != local_softirq_pending())) + unsigned int is_pending = local_softirq_pending(); + + if (unlikely(was_pending != is_pending)) { + WARN_ON_ONCE(was_pending != (is_pending & ~SCHED_SOFTIRQ_MASK)); invoke_softirq(); + } }
#else /* CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT */