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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Stable Team <stable@kernel.org>,
	Anant Nitya <kernel@prachanda.info>
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent going idle with softirq pending
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 23:34:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179783264.12708.70.camel@chaos> (raw)

The NOHZ patch contains a check for softirqs pending when a CPU goes
idle. The BUG is unrelated to NOHZ, it just was made visible by the NOHZ
patch. The BUG showed up mainly on P4 / hyperthreading enabled machines
which lead the investigations into the wrong direction in the first
place. The real cause is in cond_resched_softirq():

cond_resched_softirq() is enabling softirqs without invoking the softirq
daemon when softirqs are pending. This leads to the warning message in
the NOHZ idle code:

t1 runs softirq disabled code on CPU#0
interrupt happens, softirq is raised, but deferred (softirqs disabled)
t1 calls cond_resched_softirq()
	enables softirqs via _local_bh_enable()
	calls schedule()
t2 runs
t1 is migrated to CPU#1
t2 is done and invokes idle()
NOHZ detects the pending softirq

Fix: change _local_bh_enable() to local_bh_enable() so the softirq
daemon is invoked.

Thanks to Anant Nitya for debugging this with great patience !

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -4776,7 +4776,7 @@ int __sched cond_resched_softirq(void)
 
 	if (need_resched() && system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING) {
 		raw_local_irq_disable();
-		_local_bh_enable();
+		local_bh_enable();
 		raw_local_irq_enable();
 		__cond_resched();
 		local_bh_disable();



             reply	other threads:[~2007-05-21 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-21 21:34 Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2007-05-22  5:04 ` [PATCH] Prevent going idle with softirq pending Ingo Molnar
2007-05-22  6:32 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-22  6:38   ` Ingo Molnar

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