Re: [RFC] Deadlock via recursive wakeup via RCU with threadirqs

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Jun 28 2019 - 12:04:45 EST


On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 08:54:04AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Thank you! Plus it looks like scheduler_ipi() takes an early exit if
> ->wake_list is empty, regardless of TIF_NEED_RESCHED, right?

Yes, TIF_NEED_RESCHED is checked in the interrupt return path.