tick/rcu: Fix false positive "softirq work is pending" messages
authorPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Fri, 18 Aug 2023 20:07:57 +0000 (16:07 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 13 Sep 2023 07:42:57 +0000 (09:42 +0200)
commit55a448e8d86342a09e207c58675b65213509db2f
tree668a77add2a639d75b4bfcc3bf4f48310df2c306
parent69b8d7bf834c3fcc598aadcf78a736a871befc17
tick/rcu: Fix false positive "softirq work is pending" messages

[ Upstream commit 96c1fa04f089a7e977a44e4e8fdc92e81be20bef ]

In commit 0345691b24c0 ("tick/rcu: Stop allowing RCU_SOFTIRQ in idle") the
new function report_idle_softirq() was created by breaking code out of the
existing can_stop_idle_tick() for kernels v5.18 and newer.

In doing so, the code essentially went from a one conditional:

if (a && b && c)
warn();

to a three conditional:

if (!a)
return;
if (!b)
return;
if (!c)
return;
warn();

But that conversion got the condition for the RT specific
local_bh_blocked() wrong. The original condition was:

    !local_bh_blocked()

but the conversion failed to negate it so it ended up as:

        if (!local_bh_blocked())
return false;

This issue lay dormant until another fixup for the same commit was added
in commit a7e282c77785 ("tick/rcu: Fix bogus ratelimit condition").
This commit realized the ratelimit was essentially set to zero instead
of ten, and hence *no* softirq pending messages would ever be issued.

Once this commit was backported via linux-stable, both the v6.1 and v6.4
preempt-rt kernels started printing out 10 instances of this at boot:

  NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #80!!!

Remove the negation and return when local_bh_blocked() evaluates to true to
bring the correct behaviour back.

Fixes: 0345691b24c0 ("tick/rcu: Stop allowing RCU_SOFTIRQ in idle")
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Wen Yang <wenyang.linux@foxmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230818200757.1808398-1-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/time/tick-sched.c