linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Deadlock via recursive wakeup via RCU with threadirqs

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Message-ID: <20190628160408.GH32547@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Fri, 28 Jun 2019 18:04:08 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Scott Wood <swood@...hat.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        rcu <rcu@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Deadlock via recursive wakeup via RCU with threadirqs

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 08:54:04AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Thank you!  Plus it looks like scheduler_ipi() takes an early exit if
> ->wake_list is empty, regardless of TIF_NEED_RESCHED, right?

Yes, TIF_NEED_RESCHED is checked in the interrupt return path.