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rcu-tasks: Use schedule_hrtimeout_range() to wait for grace periods

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The synchronous RCU-tasks grace-period-wait primitives invoke
schedule_timeout_idle() to give readers a chance to exit their
read-side critical sections.  Unfortunately, this fails during early
boot on PREEMPT_RT because PREEMPT_RT relies solely on ksoftirqd to run
timer handlers.  Because ksoftirqd cannot operate until its kthreads
are spawned, there is a brief period of time following scheduler
initialization where PREEMPT_RT cannot run the timer handlers that
schedule_timeout_idle() relies on, resulting in a hang.

To avoid this boot-time hang, this commit replaces schedule_timeout_idle()
with schedule_hrtimeout(), so that the timer expires in hardirq context.
This is ensures that the timer fires even on PREEMPT_RT throughout the
irqs-enabled portions of boot as well as during runtime.

The timer is set to expire between fract and fract + HZ / 2 jiffies in
order to align with any other timers that might expire during that time,
thus reducing the number of wakeups.

Note that RCU-tasks grace periods are infrequent, so the use of hrtimer
should be fine.  In contrast, in common-case code, user of hrtimer
could result in performance issues.

Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2022-03-08 09:54:13 -08:00 committed by Paul E. McKenney
parent 5d90070816
commit 777570d9ef
1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -647,13 +647,16 @@ static void rcu_tasks_wait_gp(struct rcu_tasks *rtp)
fract = rtp->init_fract;
while (!list_empty(&holdouts)) {
ktime_t exp;
bool firstreport;
bool needreport;
int rtst;
// Slowly back off waiting for holdouts
set_tasks_gp_state(rtp, RTGS_WAIT_SCAN_HOLDOUTS);
schedule_timeout_idle(fract);
exp = jiffies_to_nsecs(fract);
__set_current_state(TASK_IDLE);
schedule_hrtimeout_range(&exp, jiffies_to_nsecs(HZ / 2), HRTIMER_MODE_REL_HARD);
if (fract < HZ)
fract++;