linux-kernel - [tip: irq/core] softirq: Provide a handshake for canceling tasklets via polling

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Message-ID: <175812024453.709179.2811378741492063853.tip-bot2@tip-bot2>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:44:04 -0000
From: "tip-bot2 for Sebastian Andrzej Siewior" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To: linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, maz@...nel.org
Subject: [tip: irq/core] softirq: Provide a handshake for canceling tasklets
 via polling

The following commit has been merged into the irq/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     fd4e876f59b7e70283b4025c717cad8948397be1
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/fd4e876f59b7e70283b4025c717cad8948397be1
Author:        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
AuthorDate:    Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:25:24 +02:00
Committer:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitterDate: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:25:41 +02:00

softirq: Provide a handshake for canceling tasklets via polling

The tasklet_unlock_spin_wait() via tasklet_disable_in_atomic() is
provided for a few legacy tasklet users. The interface is used from
atomic context (which is either softirq or disabled preemption) on
non-PREEMPT_RT and relies on spinning until the tasklet callback
completes.

On PREEMPT_RT the context is never atomic but the busy polling logic
remains. It is possible that the thread invoking tasklet_unlock_spin_wait()
has higher priority than the tasklet. If both run on the same CPU the the
tasklet makes no progress and the thread trying to cancel the tasklet will
live-lock the system.

To avoid the lockup tasklet_unlock_spin_wait() uses local_bh_disable()/
enable() which utilizes the local_lock_t for synchronisation. This lock is
a central per-CPU BKL and about to be removed.

Solve this by acquire a lock in tasklet_action_common() which is held while
the tasklet's callback is invoked. This lock will be acquired from
tasklet_unlock_spin_wait() via tasklet_callback_cancel_wait_running().

After the tasklet completed tasklet_callback_sync_wait_running() drops the
lock and acquires it again. In order to avoid unlocking the lock even if
there is no cancel request, there is a cb_waiters counter which is
incremented during a cancel request.  Blocking on the lock will PI-boost
the tasklet if needed, ensuring progress is made.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 kernel/softirq.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 513b194..4e2c980 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -805,6 +805,58 @@ static bool tasklet_clear_sched(struct tasklet_struct *t)
 	return false;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
+struct tasklet_sync_callback {
+	spinlock_t	cb_lock;
+	atomic_t	cb_waiters;
+};
+
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct tasklet_sync_callback, tasklet_sync_callback) = {
+	.cb_lock	= __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(tasklet_sync_callback.cb_lock),
+	.cb_waiters	= ATOMIC_INIT(0),
+};
+
+static void tasklet_lock_callback(void)
+{
+	spin_lock(this_cpu_ptr(&tasklet_sync_callback.cb_lock));
+}
+
+static void tasklet_unlock_callback(void)
+{
+	spin_unlock(this_cpu_ptr(&tasklet_sync_callback.cb_lock));
+}
+
+static void tasklet_callback_cancel_wait_running(void)
+{
+	struct tasklet_sync_callback *sync_cb = this_cpu_ptr(&tasklet_sync_callback);
+
+	atomic_inc(&sync_cb->cb_waiters);
+	spin_lock(&sync_cb->cb_lock);
+	atomic_dec(&sync_cb->cb_waiters);
+	spin_unlock(&sync_cb->cb_lock);
+}
+
+static void tasklet_callback_sync_wait_running(void)
+{
+	struct tasklet_sync_callback *sync_cb = this_cpu_ptr(&tasklet_sync_callback);
+
+	if (atomic_read(&sync_cb->cb_waiters)) {
+		spin_unlock(&sync_cb->cb_lock);
+		spin_lock(&sync_cb->cb_lock);
+	}
+}
+
+#else /* !CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT: */
+
+static void tasklet_lock_callback(void) { }
+static void tasklet_unlock_callback(void) { }
+static void tasklet_callback_sync_wait_running(void) { }
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+static void tasklet_callback_cancel_wait_running(void) { }
+#endif
+#endif /* !CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT */
+
 static void tasklet_action_common(struct tasklet_head *tl_head,
 				  unsigned int softirq_nr)
 {
@@ -816,6 +868,7 @@ static void tasklet_action_common(struct tasklet_head *tl_head,
 	tl_head->tail = &tl_head->head;
 	local_irq_enable();
 
+	tasklet_lock_callback();
 	while (list) {
 		struct tasklet_struct *t = list;
 
@@ -835,6 +888,7 @@ static void tasklet_action_common(struct tasklet_head *tl_head,
 					}
 				}
 				tasklet_unlock(t);
+				tasklet_callback_sync_wait_running();
 				continue;
 			}
 			tasklet_unlock(t);
@@ -847,6 +901,7 @@ static void tasklet_action_common(struct tasklet_head *tl_head,
 		__raise_softirq_irqoff(softirq_nr);
 		local_irq_enable();
 	}
+	tasklet_unlock_callback();
 }
 
 static __latent_entropy void tasklet_action(void)
@@ -897,12 +952,9 @@ void tasklet_unlock_spin_wait(struct tasklet_struct *t)
 			/*
 			 * Prevent a live lock when current preempted soft
 			 * interrupt processing or prevents ksoftirqd from
-			 * running. If the tasklet runs on a different CPU
-			 * then this has no effect other than doing the BH
-			 * disable/enable dance for nothing.
+			 * running.
 			 */
-			local_bh_disable();
-			local_bh_enable();
+			tasklet_callback_cancel_wait_running();
 		} else {
 			cpu_relax();
 		}