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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman , Breno Leitao , Clark Williams , Steven Rostedt , linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Frederic Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar , Vincent Guittot , Dietmar Eggemann , K Prateek Nayak Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netpoll: run NAPI poll in softirq context to avoid rq->lock self-deadlock Message-ID: References: <20260610183621.3915271-1-vlad.wing@gmail.com> <20260611191114.5bc43a59@kernel.org> <20260616103529.Yh9Dxsjp@linutronix.de> <20260616170257.GH49951@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20260616141719.67684bf0@kernel.org> <20260617111958.GL49951@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260617111958.GL49951@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> On Wed 2026-06-17 13:19:58, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 12:37:30PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote: > > On Tue 2026-06-16 14:17:19, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:02:57 +0200 Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > > So this is not an issue since commit 7eab73b18630e ("netconsole: convert > > > > > to NBCON console infrastructure"). Because from here now on writes are > > > > > deferred to the nbcon thread. So this purely about -stable in this case. > > > > > > > > Hmm, I thought netconsole had some reserved skbs and could to writes > > > > 'atomic' like? That said, it was 2.6 era the last time I looked at > > > > netconsole. > > > > > > Yes, that part is fine. The problem is that netconsole tries > > > to reap Tx completions if the Tx queue is full. We can't call > > > skb destructor in irq context so we put the completed skbs on > > > a queue and try to arm softirq to get to them later. > > > Arming softirq causes a ksoftirq wake up. > > > > > > We already skip the completion polling if we detect getting called > > > from the same networking driver. It's best effort, anyway. > > > Networking-side fix would be to toss another OR condition into > > > the skip. But we don't have one that'd work cleanly :S > > > > Alternative solution might be to offload the ksoftirq wake up > > to an irq_work. It might make this part safe for the > > console->write_atomic() call. > > > > Well, my understanding is that there are more problems. > > AFAIK, some drivers do not use an IRQ safe locking, see > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/oth5t27z6acp7qxut7u45ekyil7djirg2ny3bnsvnzeqasavxb@nhwdxahvcosh/ > > But anything using locking is not ->write_atomic() and should be driven > from a kthread, no? Right. I am not sure where my head was this morning. Best Regards, Petr