nohz: prevent tick stop outside of the idle loop
Jack Ren and Eric Miao tracked down the following long standing
problem in the NOHZ code:
scheduler switch to idle task
enable interrupts
Window starts here
----> interrupt happens (does not set NEED_RESCHED)
irq_exit() stops the tick
----> interrupt happens (does set NEED_RESCHED)
return from schedule()
cpu_idle(): preempt_disable();
Window ends here
The interrupts can happen at any point inside the race window. The
first interrupt stops the tick, the second one causes the scheduler to
rerun and switch away from idle again and we end up with the tick
disabled.
The fact that it needs two interrupts where the first one does not set
NEED_RESCHED and the second one does made the bug obscure and extremly
hard to reproduce and analyse. Kudos to Jack and Eric.
Solution: Limit the NOHZ functionality to the idle loop to make sure
that we can not run into such a situation ever again.
cpu_idle()
{
preempt_disable();
while(1) {
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(1); <- tell NOHZ code that we
are in the idle loop
while (!need_resched())
halt();
tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(); <- disables NOHZ mode
preempt_enable_no_resched();
schedule();
preempt_disable();
}
}
In hindsight we should have done this forever, but ...
/me grabs a large brown paperbag.
Debugged-by: Jack Ren <jack.ren@marvell.com>,
Debugged-by: eric miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h
index a881c65..d3c0269 100644
--- a/include/linux/tick.h
+++ b/include/linux/tick.h
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
unsigned long check_clocks;
enum tick_nohz_mode nohz_mode;
ktime_t idle_tick;
+ int inidle;
int tick_stopped;
unsigned long idle_jiffies;
unsigned long idle_calls;
@@ -105,14 +106,14 @@
#endif /* !CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS */
# ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
-extern void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void);
+extern void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidle);
extern void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(void);
extern void tick_nohz_update_jiffies(void);
extern ktime_t tick_nohz_get_sleep_length(void);
extern void tick_nohz_stop_idle(int cpu);
extern u64 get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time);
# else
-static inline void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void) { }
+static inline void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidle) { }
static inline void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(void) { }
static inline void tick_nohz_update_jiffies(void) { }
static inline ktime_t tick_nohz_get_sleep_length(void)