genirq: Provide forced interrupt threading
Add a commandline parameter "threadirqs" which forces all interrupts except
those marked IRQF_NO_THREAD to run threaded. That's mostly a debug option to
allow retrieving better debug data from crashing interrupt handlers. If
"threadirqs" is not enabled on the kernel command line, then there is no
impact in the interrupt hotpath.
Architecture code needs to select CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING after
marking the interrupts which cant be threaded IRQF_NO_THREAD. All
interrupts which have IRQF_TIMER set are implict marked
IRQF_NO_THREAD. Also all PER_CPU interrupts are excluded.
Forced threading hard interrupts also forces all soft interrupt
handling into thread context.
When enabled it might slow down things a bit, but for debugging problems in
interrupt code it's a reasonable penalty as it does not immediately
crash and burn the machine when an interrupt handler is buggy.
Some test results on a Core2Duo machine:
Cache cold run of:
# time git grep irq_desc
non-threaded threaded
real 1m18.741s 1m19.061s
user 0m1.874s 0m1.757s
sys 0m5.843s 0m5.427s
# iperf -c server
non-threaded
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.09 GBytes 933 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.09 GBytes 934 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.09 GBytes 933 Mbits/sec
threaded
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.09 GBytes 939 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.09 GBytes 934 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.09 GBytes 937 Mbits/sec
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110223234956.772668648@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 89835a4..cac6cf9 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2436,6 +2436,10 @@
<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
0: no polling (default)
+ threadirqs [KNL]
+ Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
+ marked explicitely IRQF_NO_THREAD.
+
topology= [S390]
Format: {off | on}
Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h
index 0fc3eb9..f8a8af1 100644
--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -383,6 +383,13 @@
}
#endif /* CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
+extern bool force_irqthreads;
+#else
+#define force_irqthreads (0)
+#endif
+
#ifndef __ARCH_SET_SOFTIRQ_PENDING
#define set_softirq_pending(x) (local_softirq_pending() = (x))
#define or_softirq_pending(x) (local_softirq_pending() |= (x))
diff --git a/kernel/irq/Kconfig b/kernel/irq/Kconfig
index 355b8c7..144db9d 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/irq/Kconfig
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@
config IRQ_PREFLOW_FASTEOI
bool
+config IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
+ bool
+
config SPARSE_IRQ
bool "Support sparse irq numbering"
depends on HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ
diff --git a/kernel/irq/internals.h b/kernel/irq/internals.h
index 935bec4..6c6ec9a 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/internals.h
+++ b/kernel/irq/internals.h
@@ -27,12 +27,14 @@
* IRQTF_DIED - handler thread died
* IRQTF_WARNED - warning "IRQ_WAKE_THREAD w/o thread_fn" has been printed
* IRQTF_AFFINITY - irq thread is requested to adjust affinity
+ * IRQTF_FORCED_THREAD - irq action is force threaded
*/
enum {
IRQTF_RUNTHREAD,
IRQTF_DIED,
IRQTF_WARNED,
IRQTF_AFFINITY,
+ IRQTF_FORCED_THREAD,
};
/*
diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
index 58c8613..acd599a 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -17,6 +17,17 @@
#include "internals.h"
+#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
+__read_mostly bool force_irqthreads;
+
+static int __init setup_forced_irqthreads(char *arg)
+{
+ force_irqthreads = true;
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("threadirqs", setup_forced_irqthreads);
+#endif
+
/**
* synchronize_irq - wait for pending IRQ handlers (on other CPUs)
* @irq: interrupt number to wait for
@@ -702,6 +713,32 @@
#endif
/*
+ * Interrupts which are not explicitely requested as threaded
+ * interrupts rely on the implicit bh/preempt disable of the hard irq
+ * context. So we need to disable bh here to avoid deadlocks and other
+ * side effects.
+ */
+static void
+irq_forced_thread_fn(struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *action)
+{
+ local_bh_disable();
+ action->thread_fn(action->irq, action->dev_id);
+ irq_finalize_oneshot(desc, action, false);
+ local_bh_enable();
+}
+
+/*
+ * Interrupts explicitely requested as threaded interupts want to be
+ * preemtible - many of them need to sleep and wait for slow busses to
+ * complete.
+ */
+static void irq_thread_fn(struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *action)
+{
+ action->thread_fn(action->irq, action->dev_id);
+ irq_finalize_oneshot(desc, action, false);
+}
+
+/*
* Interrupt handler thread
*/
static int irq_thread(void *data)
@@ -711,8 +748,15 @@
};
struct irqaction *action = data;
struct irq_desc *desc = irq_to_desc(action->irq);
+ void (*handler_fn)(struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *action);
int wake;
+ if (force_irqthreads & test_bit(IRQTF_FORCED_THREAD,
+ &action->thread_flags))
+ handler_fn = irq_forced_thread_fn;
+ else
+ handler_fn = irq_thread_fn;
+
sched_setscheduler(current, SCHED_FIFO, ¶m);
current->irqaction = action;
@@ -736,10 +780,7 @@
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&desc->lock);
} else {
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&desc->lock);
-
- action->thread_fn(action->irq, action->dev_id);
-
- irq_finalize_oneshot(desc, action, false);
+ handler_fn(desc, action);
}
wake = atomic_dec_and_test(&desc->threads_active);
@@ -789,6 +830,22 @@
set_bit(IRQTF_DIED, &tsk->irqaction->flags);
}
+static void irq_setup_forced_threading(struct irqaction *new)
+{
+ if (!force_irqthreads)
+ return;
+ if (new->flags & (IRQF_NO_THREAD | IRQF_PERCPU | IRQF_ONESHOT))
+ return;
+
+ new->flags |= IRQF_ONESHOT;
+
+ if (!new->thread_fn) {
+ set_bit(IRQTF_FORCED_THREAD, &new->thread_flags);
+ new->thread_fn = new->handler;
+ new->handler = irq_default_primary_handler;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Internal function to register an irqaction - typically used to
* allocate special interrupts that are part of the architecture.
@@ -838,6 +895,8 @@
* dummy function which warns when called.
*/
new->handler = irq_nested_primary_handler;
+ } else {
+ irq_setup_forced_threading(new);
}
/*
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index c049046..a33fb29 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -311,9 +311,21 @@
}
#ifdef __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED
-# define invoke_softirq() __do_softirq()
+static inline void invoke_softirq(void)
+{
+ if (!force_irqthreads)
+ __do_softirq();
+ else
+ wakeup_softirqd();
+}
#else
-# define invoke_softirq() do_softirq()
+static inline void invoke_softirq(void)
+{
+ if (!force_irqthreads)
+ do_softirq();
+ else
+ wakeup_softirqd();
+}
#endif
/*