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Thomas Gleixner authored
The idea of conditionally calling into rcu_irq_enter() only when RCU is not watching turned out to be not completely thought through. Paul noticed occasional premature end of grace periods in RCU torture testing. Bisection led to the commit which made the invocation of rcu_irq_enter() conditional on !rcu_is_watching(). It turned out that this conditional breaks RCU assumptions about the idle task when the scheduler tick happens to be a nested interrupt. Nested interrupts can happen when the first interrupt invokes softirq processing on return which enables interrupts. If that nested tick interrupt does not invoke rcu_irq_enter() then the RCU's irq-nesting checks will believe that this interrupt came directly from idle, which will cause RCU to report a quiescent state. Because this interrupt instead came from a softirq handler which might have been executing an RCU read-side critical section, this can cause the grace period to end prematurely. Change the condition from !rcu_is_watching() to is_idle_task(current) which enforces that interrupts in the idle task unconditionally invoke rcu_irq_enter() independent of the RCU state. This is also correct vs. user mode entries in NOHZ full scenarios because user mode entries bring RCU out of EQS and force the RCU irq nesting state accounting to nested. As only the first interrupt can enter from user mode a nested tick interrupt will enter from kernel mode and as the nesting state accounting is forced to nesting it will not do anything stupid even if rcu_irq_enter() has not been invoked. Fixes: 3eeec385 ("x86/entry: Provide idtentry_entry/exit_cond_rcu()") Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87wo4cxubv.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
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