linux-kernel - [PATCH] Prevent going idle with softirq pending

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Date:	Mon, 21 May 2007 23:34:24 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stable Team <stable@...nel.org>,
	Anant Nitya <kernel@...chanda.info>
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent going idle with softirq pending

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@...utronix.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();

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