timers: Tag (hr)timer softirq as hotplug safe
authorFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:44:06 +0000 (12:44 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 6 Oct 2023 12:57:03 +0000 (14:57 +0200)
commita90eafbf165f71e2b51a2a85be6d2f8cc895a028
treeb06cbd43002a6e66a074b314f75da708f0cfb31b
parentf32340c70eb96372321b9084840e76dcdc1a455a
timers: Tag (hr)timer softirq as hotplug safe

commit 1a6a464774947920dcedcf7409be62495c7cedd0 upstream.

Specific stress involving frequent CPU-hotplug operations, such as
running rcutorture for example, may trigger the following message:

  NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #02!!!"

This happens in the CPU-down hotplug process, after
CPUHP_AP_SMPBOOT_THREADS whose teardown callback parks ksoftirqd, and
before the target CPU shuts down through CPUHP_AP_IDLE_DEAD. In this
fragile intermediate state, softirqs waiting for threaded handling may be
forever ignored and eventually reported by the idle task as in the above
example.

However some vectors are known to be safe as long as the corresponding
subsystems have teardown callbacks handling the migration of their
events. The above error message reports pending timers softirq although
this vector can be considered as hotplug safe because the
CPUHP_TIMERS_PREPARE teardown callback performs the necessary migration
of timers after the death of the CPU. Hrtimers also have a similar
hotplug handling.

Therefore this error message, as far as (hr-)timers are concerned, can
be considered spurious and the relevant softirq vectors can be marked as
hotplug safe.

Fixes: 0345691b24c0 ("tick/rcu: Stop allowing RCU_SOFTIRQ in idle")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912104406.312185-6-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/interrupt.h