Re: 4.19.106-rt44 -- boot problems with irqwork: push most work into softirq context

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>,
	ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk, Chris.Paterson2@renesas.com,
	bigeasy@linutronix.de, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>, John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>,
	Julia Cartwright <julia@ni.com>, Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>,
	Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: 4.19.106-rt44 -- boot problems with irqwork: push most work into softirq context
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 23:43:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200321224339.GA20728@duo.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200320160545.26a65de3@gandalf.local.home>

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Hi!

On Fri 2020-03-20 16:05:45, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 20:54:32 +0100
> Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de> wrote:
> 
> > > Does this patch help?  
> > 
> > I don't think so. It also failed, and the failure seems to be
> > identical to me.
> > 
> > https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-kernel/linux-cip/tree/ci/pavel/linux-cip
> > https://lava.ciplatform.org/scheduler/job/13110
> > 
> 
> Can you send me a patch that shows the difference between the revert that
> you say works, and the upstream v4.19-rt tree (let me know which version
> of v4.19-rt you are basing it on).

I was using -rt44, and yes, I can probably generate better diffs.

But I guess I found it with code review: how does this look to you? I
applied it on top of your fix, and am testing. 2 successes so far.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>

Best regards,
								Pavel

commit aa034c3060dbab96a7b6d6bf827504b394bed15b
Author: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Date:   Sat Mar 21 22:58:43 2020 +0100

    It sounds like irq_work_queue() was queueing on wrong list?

diff --git a/kernel/irq_work.c b/kernel/irq_work.c
index 0ca75c77536b..dd654865c219 100644
--- a/kernel/irq_work.c
+++ b/kernel/irq_work.c
@@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ bool irq_work_queue(struct irq_work *work)
 
 	/* Queue the entry and raise the IPI if needed. */
 	preempt_disable();
-	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL) && !(work->flags & IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ))
+	if ((IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL) && !(work->flags & IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ))
+	    || (work->flags & IRQ_WORK_LAZY))
 		list = this_cpu_ptr(&lazy_list);
 	else
 		list = this_cpu_ptr(&raised_list);



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