linux-kernel - [GIT pull] smp/urgent for 5.3-rc1

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Date:   Sat, 20 Jul 2019 12:50:00 -0000
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: [GIT pull] smp/urgent for 5.3-rc1

Linus,

please pull the latest smp-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git smp-urgent-for-linus

up to:  19dbdcb8039c: smp: Warn on function calls from softirq context

Add warnings to the smp function calls so callers from wrong contexts get
detected.

Thanks,

	tglx

------------------>
Peter Zijlstra (1):
      smp: Warn on function calls from softirq context


 kernel/smp.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
index 616d4d114847..7dbcb402c2fc 100644
--- a/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/kernel/smp.c
@@ -291,6 +291,14 @@ int smp_call_function_single(int cpu, smp_call_func_t func, void *info,
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu_online(this_cpu) && irqs_disabled()
 		     && !oops_in_progress);
 
+	/*
+	 * When @wait we can deadlock when we interrupt between llist_add() and
+	 * arch_send_call_function_ipi*(); when !@...t we can deadlock due to
+	 * csd_lock() on because the interrupt context uses the same csd
+	 * storage.
+	 */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!in_task());
+
 	csd = &csd_stack;
 	if (!wait) {
 		csd = this_cpu_ptr(&csd_data);
@@ -416,6 +424,14 @@ void smp_call_function_many(const struct cpumask *mask,
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu_online(this_cpu) && irqs_disabled()
 		     && !oops_in_progress && !early_boot_irqs_disabled);
 
+	/*
+	 * When @wait we can deadlock when we interrupt between llist_add() and
+	 * arch_send_call_function_ipi*(); when !@...t we can deadlock due to
+	 * csd_lock() on because the interrupt context uses the same csd
+	 * storage.
+	 */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!in_task());
+
 	/* Try to fastpath.  So, what's a CPU they want? Ignoring this one. */
 	cpu = cpumask_first_and(mask, cpu_online_mask);
 	if (cpu == this_cpu)