Re: [PATCH] Prevent going idle with softirq pending

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> [  550.280860] BUG: at kernel/softirq.c:138 local_bh_enable()

yep. The correct patch is the one below.

	Ingo

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Subject: Prevent going idle with softirq pending
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
 
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>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Index: linux/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux/kernel/sched.c
@@ -4212,9 +4212,7 @@ int __sched cond_resched_softirq(void)
 	BUG_ON(!in_softirq());
 
 	if (need_resched() && system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING) {
-		raw_local_irq_disable();
-		_local_bh_enable();
-		raw_local_irq_enable();
+		local_bh_enable();
 		__cond_resched();
 		local_bh_disable();
 		return 1;