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* [PATCH 1/2] kthread: convert worker lock to raw spinlock
@ 2019-02-12 16:25 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
  2019-02-12 16:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] kthread: Do not use TIMER_IRQSAFE Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior @ 2019-02-12 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Ingo Molnar, tglx, Julia Cartwright, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior,
	Guenter Roeck, Steffen Trumtrar, Tim Sander

From: Julia Cartwright <julia@ni.com>

In order to enable the queuing of kthread work items from hardirq
context even when PREEMPT_RT_FULL is enabled, convert the worker
spin_lock to a raw_spin_lock.

This is only acceptable to do because the work performed under the lock
is well-bounded and minimal.

Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reported-and-tested-by: Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de>
Reported-by: Tim Sander <tim@krieglstein.org>
Signed-off-by: Julia Cartwright <julia@ni.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
---
 include/linux/kthread.h |  4 ++--
 kernel/kthread.c        | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kthread.h b/include/linux/kthread.h
index c1961761311db..6b8c064f0cbcd 100644
--- a/include/linux/kthread.h
+++ b/include/linux/kthread.h
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ enum {
 
 struct kthread_worker {
 	unsigned int		flags;
-	spinlock_t		lock;
+	raw_spinlock_t		lock;
 	struct list_head	work_list;
 	struct list_head	delayed_work_list;
 	struct task_struct	*task;
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ struct kthread_delayed_work {
 };
 
 #define KTHREAD_WORKER_INIT(worker)	{				\
-	.lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED((worker).lock),			\
+	.lock = __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED((worker).lock),		\
 	.work_list = LIST_HEAD_INIT((worker).work_list),		\
 	.delayed_work_list = LIST_HEAD_INIT((worker).delayed_work_list),\
 	}
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 087d18d771b53..5641b55783a6f 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ void __kthread_init_worker(struct kthread_worker *worker,
 				struct lock_class_key *key)
 {
 	memset(worker, 0, sizeof(struct kthread_worker));
-	spin_lock_init(&worker->lock);
+	raw_spin_lock_init(&worker->lock);
 	lockdep_set_class_and_name(&worker->lock, key, name);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&worker->work_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&worker->delayed_work_list);
@@ -641,21 +641,21 @@ int kthread_worker_fn(void *worker_ptr)
 
 	if (kthread_should_stop()) {
 		__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
-		spin_lock_irq(&worker->lock);
+		raw_spin_lock_irq(&worker->lock);
 		worker->task = NULL;
-		spin_unlock_irq(&worker->lock);
+		raw_spin_unlock_irq(&worker->lock);
 		return 0;
 	}
 
 	work = NULL;
-	spin_lock_irq(&worker->lock);
+	raw_spin_lock_irq(&worker->lock);
 	if (!list_empty(&worker->work_list)) {
 		work = list_first_entry(&worker->work_list,
 					struct kthread_work, node);
 		list_del_init(&work->node);
 	}
 	worker->current_work = work;
-	spin_unlock_irq(&worker->lock);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irq(&worker->lock);
 
 	if (work) {
 		__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
@@ -812,12 +812,12 @@ bool kthread_queue_work(struct kthread_worker *worker,
 	bool ret = false;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&worker->lock, flags);
+	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&worker->lock, flags);
 	if (!queuing_blocked(worker, work)) {
 		kthread_insert_work(worker, work, &worker->work_list);
 		ret = true;
 	}
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&worker->lock, flags);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&worker->lock, flags);
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_queue_work);
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ void kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn(struct timer_list *t)
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!worker))
 		return;
 
-	spin_lock(&worker->lock);
+	raw_spin_lock(&worker->lock);
 	/* Work must not be used with >1 worker, see kthread_queue_work(). */
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(work->worker != worker);
 
@@ -852,7 +852,7 @@ void kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn(struct timer_list *t)
 	list_del_init(&work->node);
 	kthread_insert_work(worker, work, &worker->work_list);
 
-	spin_unlock(&worker->lock);
+	raw_spin_unlock(&worker->lock);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn);
 
@@ -908,14 +908,14 @@ bool kthread_queue_delayed_work(struct kthread_worker *worker,
 	unsigned long flags;
 	bool ret = false;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&worker->lock, flags);
+	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&worker->lock, flags);
 
 	if (!queuing_blocked(worker, work)) {
 		__kthread_queue_delayed_work(worker, dwork, delay);
 		ret = true;
 	}
 
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&worker->lock, flags);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&worker->lock, flags);
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_queue_delayed_work);
@@ -951,7 +951,7 @@ void kthread_flush_work(struct kthread_work *work)
 	if (!worker)
 		return;
 
-	spin_lock_irq(&worker->lock);
+	raw_spin_lock_irq(&worker->lock);
 	/* Work must not be used with >1 worker, see kthread_queue_work(). */
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(work->worker != worker);
 
@@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ void kthread_flush_work(struct kthread_work *work)
 	else
 		noop = true;
 
-	spin_unlock_irq(&worker->lock);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irq(&worker->lock);
 
 	if (!noop)
 		wait_for_completion(&fwork.done);
@@ -996,9 +996,9 @@ static bool __kthread_cancel_work(struct kthread_work *work, bool is_dwork,
 		 * any queuing is blocked by setting the canceling counter.
 		 */
 		work->canceling++;
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&worker->lock, *flags);
+		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&worker->lock, *flags);
 		del_timer_sync(&dwork->timer);
-		spin_lock_irqsave(&worker->lock, *flags);
+		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&worker->lock, *flags);
 		work->canceling--;
 	}
 
@@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ bool kthread_mod_delayed_work(struct kthread_worker *worker,
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int ret = false;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&worker->lock, flags);
+	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&worker->lock, flags);
 
 	/* Do not bother with canceling when never queued. */
 	if (!work->worker)
@@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ bool kthread_mod_delayed_work(struct kthread_worker *worker,
 fast_queue:
 	__kthread_queue_delayed_work(worker, dwork, delay);
 out:
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&worker->lock, flags);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&worker->lock, flags);
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_mod_delayed_work);
@@ -1076,7 +1076,7 @@ static bool __kthread_cancel_work_sync(struct kthread_work *work, bool is_dwork)
 	if (!worker)
 		goto out;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&worker->lock, flags);
+	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&worker->lock, flags);
 	/* Work must not be used with >1 worker, see kthread_queue_work(). */
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(work->worker != worker);
 
@@ -1090,13 +1090,13 @@ static bool __kthread_cancel_work_sync(struct kthread_work *work, bool is_dwork)
 	 * In the meantime, block any queuing by setting the canceling counter.
 	 */
 	work->canceling++;
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&worker->lock, flags);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&worker->lock, flags);
 	kthread_flush_work(work);
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&worker->lock, flags);
+	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&worker->lock, flags);
 	work->canceling--;
 
 out_fast:
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&worker->lock, flags);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&worker->lock, flags);
 out:
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.20.1


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* [PATCH 0/2] Fix watchdogd wakeup deferral on RT
@ 2018-09-28 21:03 Julia Cartwright
  2018-09-28 21:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] kthread: convert worker lock to raw spinlock Julia Cartwright
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Julia Cartwright @ 2018-09-28 21:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, Thomas Gleixner, Peter Zijlstra, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
  Cc: linux-kernel, linux-rt-users, Guenter Roeck, Steffen Trumtrar,
	Tim Sander

The following two patches solve an issue reported by Steffen Trumtrar
and Tim Sander to the linux-rt-users mailing list.  Namely, the wakeup
of the watchdogd thread being starved by an RT task due to the hrtimer
deferral through ktimersoftd (on PREEMPT_RT_FULL).

The first patch adjusts the kthread_worker locking to make use of a raw
spinlock, making it suitable for work item queueing from hardirq context
on PREEMPT_RT.  This patch can be applied directly to mainline without
any functional change.

The second patch adjusts the hrtimer used by the watchdog core to be a
_HARD timer (and thus not deferred through ktimersoftd w/ PREEMPT_RT).
This patch depends on hrtimer patches carried in the RT patch, and so
should therefore land there.

Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Sander <tim@krieglstein.org>

Julia Cartwright (2):
  kthread: convert worker lock to raw spinlock
  watchdog, rt: prevent deferral of watchdogd wakeup

 drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c |  2 +-
 include/linux/kthread.h         |  2 +-
 kernel/kthread.c                | 42 ++++++++++++++++-----------------
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

-- 
2.18.0


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