Re: [PATCH v5 7/9] task_isolation: don't interrupt CPUs with tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu()
From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-11-23 22:13:46
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Hi Alex, On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 05:58:22PM +0000, Alex Belits wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
From: Yuri Norov <redacted> For nohz_full CPUs the desirable behavior is to receive interrupts generated by tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(). But for hard isolation it's obviously not desirable because it breaks isolation. This patch adds check for it. Signed-off-by: Yuri Norov <redacted> [abelits@marvell.com: updated, only exclude CPUs running isolated tasks] Signed-off-by: Alex Belits <redacted> --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index a213952541db..6c8679e200f0 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ #include <linux/sched/clock.h> #include <linux/sched/stat.h> #include <linux/sched/nohz.h> +#include <linux/isolation.h> #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/irq_work.h> #include <linux/posix-timers.h>@@ -268,7 +269,8 @@ static void tick_nohz_full_kick(void) */ void tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(int cpu) { - if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu)) + smp_rmb(); + if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu) || task_isolation_on_cpu(cpu)) return;
Like I said in subsequent reviews, we are not going to ignore IPIs. We must fix the sources of these IPIs instead. Thanks.
irq_work_queue_on(&per_cpu(nohz_full_kick_work, cpu), cpu); -- 2.20.1