We're going to deprecate and remove set_need_resched() for it will do the wrong thing. Make an exception for RCU and allow it to use resched_cpu() which will do the right thing. Cc: Paul McKenney Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra --- kernel/rcutree.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- kernel/sched/core.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -898,6 +898,12 @@ static void print_other_cpu_stall(struct force_quiescent_state(rsp); /* Kick them all. */ } +/* + * This function really isn't for public consumption, but RCU is special in + * that context switches can allow the state machine to make progress. + */ +extern void resched_cpu(int cpu); + static void print_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp) { int cpu; @@ -927,7 +933,14 @@ static void print_cpu_stall(struct rcu_s 3 * rcu_jiffies_till_stall_check() + 3; raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags); - set_need_resched(); /* kick ourselves to get things going. */ + /* + * Attempt to revive the RCU machinery by forcing a context switch. + * + * A context switch would normally allow the RCU state machine to make + * progress and it could be we're stuck in kernel space without context + * switches for an entirely unreasonable amount of time. + */ + resched_cpu(smp_processor_id()); } static void check_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp) --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -513,12 +513,11 @@ static inline void init_hrtick(void) * might also involve a cross-CPU call to trigger the scheduler on * the target CPU. */ -#ifdef CONFIG_SMP void resched_task(struct task_struct *p) { int cpu; - assert_raw_spin_locked(&task_rq(p)->lock); + lockdep_assert_held(&task_rq(p)->lock); if (test_tsk_need_resched(p)) return; @@ -546,6 +545,7 @@ void resched_cpu(int cpu) raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, flags); } +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON /* * In the semi idle case, use the nearest busy cpu for migrating timers