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* [RESEND PATCH 3/3] do_exit(): do not panic if exiting thread is not serving an interrupt
@ 2012-03-21 16:22 Alexander Gordeev
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From: Alexander Gordeev @ 2012-03-21 16:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thomas Gleixner; +Cc: linux-kernel

Currently a crashed and killed forced oneshot threaded handler hits
in_interrupt() check in do_exit() and panics. As result, the code that
cleans up IRQ descriptor never not get called and IRQ line stays masked.

Similarly non-forced oneshot threaded handlers that crashed while holding
bh lock leave a IRQ line masked.

Regular threaded handlers that crashed while holding bh simply panic,
although they could have just terminate loudly.

This fix allows IRQ threaded handlers get killed gracefully instead of
panicking.

Since introduction of SOFTIRQ_DISABLE_OFFSET in 75e1056 we can differ
between bh being serviced and bh being disabled. Use this ability to
avoid unnecessary crashes when a exiting thread explicitly disabled bh
and is not serving any softirq. Still we will get the regular warning
that exiting thread is in atomic context.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
---
 include/linux/hardirq.h |    4 ++++
 kernel/exit.c           |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/hardirq.h b/include/linux/hardirq.h
index bb7f309..93aca12 100644
--- a/include/linux/hardirq.h
+++ b/include/linux/hardirq.h
@@ -82,11 +82,15 @@
  * Are we in a softirq context? Interrupt context?
  * in_softirq - Are we currently processing softirq or have bh disabled?
  * in_serving_softirq - Are we currently processing softirq?
+ * in_serving_interrupt - Are we currently processing softirq, nmi or
+ *                        hardware interrupt?
  */
 #define in_irq()		(hardirq_count())
 #define in_softirq()		(softirq_count())
 #define in_interrupt()		(irq_count())
 #define in_serving_softirq()	(softirq_count() & SOFTIRQ_OFFSET)
+#define in_serving_interrupt()	(preempt_count() & (HARDIRQ_MASK \
+					 | SOFTIRQ_OFFSET | NMI_MASK))
 
 /*
  * Are we in NMI context?
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index ce5f758..c0aacdb 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ void do_exit(long code)
 
 	WARN_ON(blk_needs_flush_plug(tsk));
 
-	if (unlikely(in_interrupt()))
+	if (unlikely(in_serving_interrupt()))
 		panic("Aiee, killing interrupt handler!");
 	if (unlikely(!tsk->pid))
 		panic("Attempted to kill the idle task!");
-- 
1.7.7.6


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