linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB: ehci: drop workaround for forced irq threading

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Message-ID: <20210322164200.GB667925@rowland.harvard.edu>
Date:   Mon, 22 Mar 2021 12:42:00 -0400
From:   Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: ehci: drop workaround for forced irq threading

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 12:12:49PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Force-threaded interrupt handlers used to run with interrupts enabled,
> something which could lead to deadlocks in case a threaded handler
> shared a lock with code running in hard interrupt context (e.g. timer
> callbacks) and did not explicitly disable interrupts.
> 
> Since commit 81e2073c175b ("genirq: Disable interrupts for force
> threaded handlers") interrupt handlers always run with interrupts
> disabled on non-RT so that drivers no longer need to do handle forced
> threading ("threadirqs").

What happens on RT systems?  Are they smart enough to avoid the whole 
problem by enabling interrupts during _all_ callbacks?

Alan Stern