linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] Fix watchdogd wakeup deferral on RT

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Date:   Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:03:52 +0000
From:   Julia Cartwright <julia@...com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@...gutronix.de>,
        Tim Sander <tim@...eglstein.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Fix watchdogd wakeup deferral on RT

The following two patches solve an issue reported by Steffen Trumtrar
and Tim Sander to the linux-rt-users mailing list.  Namely, the wakeup
of the watchdogd thread being starved by an RT task due to the hrtimer
deferral through ktimersoftd (on PREEMPT_RT_FULL).

The first patch adjusts the kthread_worker locking to make use of a raw
spinlock, making it suitable for work item queueing from hardirq context
on PREEMPT_RT.  This patch can be applied directly to mainline without
any functional change.

The second patch adjusts the hrtimer used by the watchdog core to be a
_HARD timer (and thus not deferred through ktimersoftd w/ PREEMPT_RT).
This patch depends on hrtimer patches carried in the RT patch, and so
should therefore land there.

Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc: Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@...gutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Sander <tim@...eglstein.org>

Julia Cartwright (2):
  kthread: convert worker lock to raw spinlock
  watchdog, rt: prevent deferral of watchdogd wakeup

 drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c |  2 +-
 include/linux/kthread.h         |  2 +-
 kernel/kthread.c                | 42 ++++++++++++++++-----------------
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

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