nohz: Restore NMI safe local irq work for local nohz kick
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:50:16 +0000 (18:50 +0200)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Thu, 4 Sep 2014 20:35:59 +0000 (22:35 +0200)
The local nohz kick is currently used by perf which needs it to be
NMI-safe. Recent commit though (7d1311b93e58ed55f3a31cc8f94c4b8fe988a2b9)
changed its implementation to fire the local kick using the remote kick
API. It was convenient to make the code more generic but the remote kick
isn't NMI-safe.

As a result:

WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 18062 at kernel/irq_work.c:72 irq_work_queue_on+0x11e/0x140()
CPU: 3 PID: 18062 Comm: trinity-subchil Not tainted 3.16.0+ #34
0000000000000009 00000000903774d1 ffff880244e06c00 ffffffff9a7f1e37
0000000000000000 ffff880244e06c38 ffffffff9a0791dd ffff880244fce180
0000000000000003 ffff880244e06d58 ffff880244e06ef8 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
<NMI>  [<ffffffff9a7f1e37>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a
[<ffffffff9a0791dd>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0
[<ffffffff9a07930a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[<ffffffff9a17ca1e>] irq_work_queue_on+0x11e/0x140
[<ffffffff9a10a2c7>] tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu+0x57/0x90
[<ffffffff9a186cd5>] __perf_event_overflow+0x275/0x350
[<ffffffff9a184f80>] ? perf_event_task_disable+0xa0/0xa0
[<ffffffff9a01a4cf>] ? x86_perf_event_set_period+0xbf/0x150
[<ffffffff9a187934>] perf_event_overflow+0x14/0x20
[<ffffffff9a020386>] intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x206/0x410
[<ffffffff9a0b54d3>] ? arch_vtime_task_switch+0x63/0x130
[<ffffffff9a01937b>] perf_event_nmi_handler+0x2b/0x50
[<ffffffff9a007b72>] nmi_handle+0xd2/0x390
[<ffffffff9a007aa5>] ? nmi_handle+0x5/0x390
[<ffffffff9a0d131b>] ? lock_release+0xab/0x330
[<ffffffff9a008062>] default_do_nmi+0x72/0x1c0
[<ffffffff9a0c925f>] ? cpuacct_account_field+0xcf/0x200
[<ffffffff9a008268>] do_nmi+0xb8/0x100

Lets fix this by restoring the use of local irq work for the nohz local
kick.

Reported-by: Catalin Iacob <iacobcatalin@gmail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
include/linux/tick.h
kernel/time/tick-sched.c

index 059052306831496d88de2f143930a32593b8ac79..9a82c7dc3fdd9f1fd35d62fb2ab0734516c9ad6c 100644 (file)
@@ -183,13 +183,8 @@ static inline bool tick_nohz_full_cpu(int cpu)
 
 extern void tick_nohz_init(void);
 extern void __tick_nohz_full_check(void);
+extern void tick_nohz_full_kick(void);
 extern void tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(int cpu);
-
-static inline void tick_nohz_full_kick(void)
-{
-       tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(smp_processor_id());
-}
-
 extern void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void);
 extern void __tick_nohz_task_switch(struct task_struct *tsk);
 #else
index 99aa6ee3908fbbff83923b2a8bb4c72b06e3f281..f654a8a298fad5cac36465bdcb23fddeb854f2ef 100644 (file)
@@ -224,6 +224,20 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct irq_work, nohz_full_kick_work) = {
        .func = nohz_full_kick_work_func,
 };
 
+/*
+ * Kick this CPU if it's full dynticks in order to force it to
+ * re-evaluate its dependency on the tick and restart it if necessary.
+ * This kick, unlike tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu() and tick_nohz_full_kick_all(),
+ * is NMI safe.
+ */
+void tick_nohz_full_kick(void)
+{
+       if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id()))
+               return;
+
+       irq_work_queue(&__get_cpu_var(nohz_full_kick_work));
+}
+
 /*
  * Kick the CPU if it's full dynticks in order to force it to
  * re-evaluate its dependency on the tick and restart it if necessary.