linux-kernel - Re: [patch 14/19] softirq: Make softirq control and processing RT aware

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Date:   Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:27:33 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Paul McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>,
        linux-um@...ts.infradead.org, Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 14/19] softirq: Make softirq control and processing RT aware

On Mon, Nov 23 2020 at 14:44, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 03:02:21PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Adjust softirq count to SOFTIRQ_OFFSET which makes
>> +	 * in_serving_softirq() become true.
>> +	 */
>> +	cnt = SOFTIRQ_OFFSET;
>> +	__local_bh_enable(cnt, false);
>
> But then you enter __do_softirq() with softirq_count() == SOFTIRQ_OFFSET.
> __do_softirq() calls softirq_handle_begin() which then sets it back to
> SOFTIRQ_DISABLE_OFFSET...

The RT variant of it added in this very same patch
> +static inline void softirq_handle_begin(void) { }
> +static inline void softirq_handle_end(void) { }

Thanks,

        tglx