[PATCH RT 4/5] timers: Dont block on ->expiry_lock for TIMER_IRQSAFE

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Nov 10 2020 - 10:40:35 EST


5.4.74-rt42-rc2 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

PREEMPT_RT does not spin and wait until a running timer completes its
callback but instead it blocks on a sleeping lock to prevent a deadlock.

This blocking can not be done for workqueue's IRQ_SAFE timer which will
be canceled in an IRQ-off region. It has to happen to in IRQ-off region
because changing the PENDING bit and clearing the timer must not be
interrupted to avoid a busy-loop.

The callback invocation of IRQSAFE timer is not preempted on PREEMPT_RT
so there is no need to synchronize on timer_base::expiry_lock.

Don't acquire the timer_base::expiry_lock for TIMER_IRQSAFE flagged
timer.
Add a lockdep annotation to ensure that this function is always invoked
in preemptible context on PREEMPT_RT.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable-rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/timer.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index 89078fd848b9..3e9d7f227a5c 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -1289,7 +1289,7 @@ static void del_timer_wait_running(struct timer_list *timer)
u32 tf;

tf = READ_ONCE(timer->flags);
- if (!(tf & TIMER_MIGRATING)) {
+ if (!(tf & (TIMER_MIGRATING | TIMER_IRQSAFE))) {
struct timer_base *base = get_timer_base(tf);

/*
@@ -1373,6 +1373,13 @@ int del_timer_sync(struct timer_list *timer)
*/
WARN_ON(in_irq() && !(timer->flags & TIMER_IRQSAFE));

+ /*
+ * Must be able to sleep on PREEMPT_RT because of the slowpath in
+ * del_timer_wait_running().
+ */
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && !(timer->flags & TIMER_IRQSAFE))
+ might_sleep();
+
do {
ret = try_to_del_timer_sync(timer);

--
2.28.0