tick: Move got_idle_tick away from common flags
tick_nohz_idle_got_tick() is called by cpuidle_reflect() within the idle loop with interrupts enabled. This function modifies the struct tick_sched's bitfield "got_idle_tick". However this bitfield is stored within the same mask as other bitfields that can be modified from interrupts. Fortunately so far it looks like the only race that can happen is while writing ->got_idle_tick to 0, an interrupt fires and writes the ->idle_active field to 0. It's then possible that the interrupted write to ->got_idle_tick writes back the old value of ->idle_active back to 1. However if that happens, the worst possible outcome is that the time spent between that interrupt and the upcoming call to tick_nohz_idle_exit() is accounted as idle, which is negligible quantity. Still all the bitfield writes within this struct tick_sched's shadow mask should be IRQ-safe. Therefore move this bitfield out to its own storage to avoid further suprises. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225225508.11587-12-frederic@kernel.org
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