Re: [PATCH v3] irq/core: synchronize irq_thread startup

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Mon, May 02 2022 at 13:28, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
> While running
> "while /bin/true; do setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none;
> setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart 16550A; done"
> on a kernel with threaded irqs, setserial is hung after some calls.
>
> setserial opens the device, this will install an irq handler if the uart is
> not none, followed by TIOCGSERIAL and TIOCSSERIAL ioctls.
> Then the device is closed. On close, synchronize_irq() is called by
> serial_core.

This comment made me look deeper because I expected that free_irq()
would hang.

But free_irq() stopped issuing synchronize_irq() with commit
519cc8652b3a ("genirq: Synchronize only with single thread on
free_irq()"). And that turns out to be the root cause of the problem.
I should have caught that back then, but in hindsight ....

While the proposed patch works, I think the real solution is to ensure
that both the hardware interrupt _and_ the interrupt threads which are
associated to the removed action are in quiescent state. This should
catch the case you observed.

Something like the untested below.

Thanks,

        tglx
---
Subject: genirq: Quiesce interrupt threads in free_irq()
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 15:40:25 +0200

Fill void...

Fixes: 519cc8652b3a ("genirq: Synchronize only with single thread on free_irq()")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
 kernel/irq/manage.c |   25 +++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -1914,6 +1914,22 @@ static struct irqaction *__free_irq(stru
 	 */
 	__synchronize_hardirq(desc, true);
 
+	/*
+	 * Wait for associated interrupt threads to complete. This cannot
+	 * use synchronize_irq() due to interrupt sharing in the PCIe
+	 * layer. See 519cc8652b3a ("genirq: Synchronize only with single
+	 * thread on free_irq()") for further explanation.
+	 */
+	if (action->thread) {
+		unsigned int thread_mask = action->thread_mask;
+
+		if (action->secondary)
+			thread_mask |= action->secondary->thread_mask;
+
+		wait_event(desc->wait_for_threads,
+			   !(atomic_read(&desc->threads_active) & thread_mask));
+	}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ
 	/*
 	 * It's a shared IRQ -- the driver ought to be prepared for an IRQ
@@ -1931,10 +1947,11 @@ static struct irqaction *__free_irq(stru
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * The action has already been removed above, but the thread writes
-	 * its oneshot mask bit when it completes. Though request_mutex is
-	 * held across this which prevents __setup_irq() from handing out
-	 * the same bit to a newly requested action.
+	 * The action has already been removed above and both the hardware
+	 * interrupt and the associated threads have been synchronized,
+	 * which means they are in quiescent state. request_mutex is still
+	 * held which prevents __setup_irq() from handing out action's
+	 * thread_mask to a newly requested action.
 	 */
 	if (action->thread) {
 		kthread_stop(action->thread);