patches/softirq-sanitize-softirq-pending.patch

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:16:38 -0500
Subject: softirq: Sanitize softirq pending for NOHZ/RT

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

---
 include/linux/interrupt.h |    2 +
 kernel/softirq.c          |   63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c  |    9 ------
 3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -455,6 +455,8 @@ extern void __raise_softirq_irqoff(unsig
 extern void raise_softirq_irqoff(unsigned int nr);
 extern void raise_softirq(unsigned int nr);
 
+extern void softirq_check_pending_idle(void);
+
 /* This is the worklist that queues up per-cpu softirq work.
  *
  * send_remote_sendirq() adds work to these lists, and
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -62,6 +62,69 @@ char *softirq_to_name[NR_SOFTIRQS] = {
 	"TASKLET", "SCHED", "HRTIMER", "RCU"
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
+# ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL
+/*
+ * On preempt-rt a softirq might be blocked on a lock. There might be
+ * no other runnable task on this CPU because the lock owner runs on
+ * some other CPU. So we have to go into idle with the pending bit
+ * set. Therefor we need to check this otherwise we warn about false
+ * positives which confuses users and defeats the whole purpose of
+ * this test.
+ *
+ * This code is called with interrupts disabled.
+ */
+void softirq_check_pending_idle(void)
+{
+	static int rate_limit;
+	u32 warnpending = 0, pending;
+
+	if (rate_limit >= 10)
+		return;
+
+	pending = local_softirq_pending() & SOFTIRQ_STOP_IDLE_MASK;
+	if (pending) {
+		struct task_struct *tsk;
+
+		tsk = __get_cpu_var(ksoftirqd);
+		/*
+		 * The wakeup code in rtmutex.c wakes up the task
+		 * _before_ it sets pi_blocked_on to NULL under
+		 * tsk->pi_lock. So we need to check for both: state
+		 * and pi_blocked_on.
+		 */
+		raw_spin_lock(&tsk->pi_lock);
+
+		if (!tsk->pi_blocked_on && !(tsk->state == TASK_RUNNING))
+			warnpending = 1;
+
+		raw_spin_unlock(&tsk->pi_lock);
+	}
+
+	if (warnpending) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "NOHZ: local_softirq_pending %02x\n",
+		       pending);
+		rate_limit++;
+	}
+}
+# else
+/*
+ * On !PREEMPT_RT we just printk rate limited:
+ */
+void softirq_check_pending_idle(void)
+{
+	static int rate_limit;
+
+	if (rate_limit < 10 &&
+			(local_softirq_pending() & SOFTIRQ_STOP_IDLE_MASK)) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "NOHZ: local_softirq_pending %02x\n",
+		       local_softirq_pending());
+		rate_limit++;
+	}
+}
+# endif
+#endif
+
 /*
  * we cannot loop indefinitely here to avoid userspace starvation,
  * but we also don't want to introduce a worst case 1/HZ latency
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -481,14 +481,7 @@ static bool can_stop_idle_tick(int cpu,
 		return false;
 
 	if (unlikely(local_softirq_pending() && cpu_online(cpu))) {
-		static int ratelimit;
-
-		if (ratelimit < 10 &&
-		    (local_softirq_pending() & SOFTIRQ_STOP_IDLE_MASK)) {
-			printk(KERN_ERR "NOHZ: local_softirq_pending %02x\n",
-			       (unsigned int) local_softirq_pending());
-			ratelimit++;
-		}
+		softirq_check_pending_idle();
 		return false;
 	}