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irq_work: Force raised irq work to run on irq work interrupt

The nohz full kick, which restarts the tick when any resource depend
on it, can't be executed anywhere given the operation it does on timers.
If it is called from the scheduler or timers code, chances are that
we run into a deadlock.

This is why we run the nohz full kick from an irq work. That way we make
sure that the kick runs on a virgin context.

However if that's the case when irq work runs in its own dedicated
self-ipi, things are different for the big bunch of archs that don't
support the self triggered way. In order to support them, irq works are
also handled by the timer interrupt as fallback.

Now when irq works run on the timer interrupt, the context isn't blank.
More precisely, they can run in the context of the hrtimer that runs the
tick. But the nohz kick cancels and restarts this hrtimer and cancelling
an hrtimer from itself isn't allowed. This is why we run in an endless
loop:

Kernel panic - not syncing: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 2
CPU: 2 PID: 7538 Comm: kworker/u8:8 Not tainted 3.16.0+ #34
Workqueue: btrfs-endio-write normal_work_helper [btrfs]
ffff880244c06c88 000000001b486fe1 ffff880244c06bf0 ffffffff8a7f1e37
ffffffff8ac52a18 ffff880244c06c78 ffffffff8a7ef928 0000000000000010
ffff880244c06c88 ffff880244c06c20 000000001b486fe1 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
<NMI[<ffffffff8a7f1e37>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a
[<ffffffff8a7ef928>] panic+0xd4/0x207
[<ffffffff8a1450e8>] watchdog_overflow_callback+0x118/0x120
[<ffffffff8a186b0e>] __perf_event_overflow+0xae/0x350
[<ffffffff8a184f80>] ? perf_event_task_disable+0xa0/0xa0
[<ffffffff8a01a4cf>] ? x86_perf_event_set_period+0xbf/0x150
[<ffffffff8a187934>] perf_event_overflow+0x14/0x20
[<ffffffff8a020386>] intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x206/0x410
[<ffffffff8a01937b>] perf_event_nmi_handler+0x2b/0x50
[<ffffffff8a007b72>] nmi_handle+0xd2/0x390
[<ffffffff8a007aa5>] ? nmi_handle+0x5/0x390
[<ffffffff8a0cb7f8>] ? match_held_lock+0x8/0x1b0
[<ffffffff8a008062>] default_do_nmi+0x72/0x1c0
[<ffffffff8a008268>] do_nmi+0xb8/0x100
[<ffffffff8a7ff66a>] end_repeat_nmi+0x1e/0x2e
[<ffffffff8a0cb7f8>] ? match_held_lock+0x8/0x1b0
[<ffffffff8a0cb7f8>] ? match_held_lock+0x8/0x1b0
[<ffffffff8a0cb7f8>] ? match_held_lock+0x8/0x1b0
<<EOE><IRQ[<ffffffff8a0ccd2f>] lock_acquired+0xaf/0x450
[<ffffffff8a0f74c5>] ? lock_hrtimer_base.isra.20+0x25/0x50
[<ffffffff8a7fc678>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x78/0x90
[<ffffffff8a0f74c5>] ? lock_hrtimer_base.isra.20+0x25/0x50
[<ffffffff8a0f74c5>] lock_hrtimer_base.isra.20+0x25/0x50
[<ffffffff8a0f7723>] hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x33/0x1e0
[<ffffffff8a0f78ea>] hrtimer_cancel+0x1a/0x30
[<ffffffff8a109237>] tick_nohz_restart+0x17/0x90
[<ffffffff8a10a213>] __tick_nohz_full_check+0xc3/0x100
[<ffffffff8a10a25e>] nohz_full_kick_work_func+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff8a17c884>] irq_work_run_list+0x44/0x70
[<ffffffff8a17c8da>] irq_work_run+0x2a/0x50
[<ffffffff8a0f700b>] update_process_times+0x5b/0x70
[<ffffffff8a109005>] tick_sched_handle.isra.21+0x25/0x60
[<ffffffff8a109b81>] tick_sched_timer+0x41/0x60
[<ffffffff8a0f7aa2>] __run_hrtimer+0x72/0x470
[<ffffffff8a109b40>] ? tick_sched_do_timer+0xb0/0xb0
[<ffffffff8a0f8707>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x117/0x270
[<ffffffff8a034357>] local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x37/0x60
[<ffffffff8a80010f>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x3f/0x50
[<ffffffff8a7fe52f>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6f/0x80

To fix this we force non-lazy irq works to run on irq work self-IPIs
when available. That ability of the arch to trigger irq work self IPIs
is available with arch_irq_work_has_interrupt().

Reported-by: Catalin Iacob <iacobcatalin@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

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include/linux/irq_work.h
··· 39 39 #endif 40 40 41 41 void irq_work_run(void); 42 + void irq_work_tick(void); 42 43 void irq_work_sync(struct irq_work *work); 43 44 44 45 #ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_WORK
+13 -2
kernel/irq_work.c
··· 115 115 116 116 raised = &__get_cpu_var(raised_list); 117 117 lazy = &__get_cpu_var(lazy_list); 118 - if (llist_empty(raised) && llist_empty(lazy)) 119 - return false; 118 + 119 + if (llist_empty(raised) || arch_irq_work_has_interrupt()) 120 + if (llist_empty(lazy)) 121 + return false; 120 122 121 123 /* All work should have been flushed before going offline */ 122 124 WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id())); ··· 172 170 irq_work_run_list(&__get_cpu_var(lazy_list)); 173 171 } 174 172 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_work_run); 173 + 174 + void irq_work_tick(void) 175 + { 176 + struct llist_head *raised = &__get_cpu_var(raised_list); 177 + 178 + if (!llist_empty(raised) && !arch_irq_work_has_interrupt()) 179 + irq_work_run_list(raised); 180 + irq_work_run_list(&__get_cpu_var(lazy_list)); 181 + } 175 182 176 183 /* 177 184 * Synchronize against the irq_work @entry, ensures the entry is not
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kernel/time/timer.c
··· 1385 1385 rcu_check_callbacks(cpu, user_tick); 1386 1386 #ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_WORK 1387 1387 if (in_irq()) 1388 - irq_work_run(); 1388 + irq_work_tick(); 1389 1389 #endif 1390 1390 scheduler_tick(); 1391 1391 run_posix_cpu_timers(p);