[PATCH] sched/fair: Make the BW replenish timer expire in hardirq context for PREEMPT_RT

[Valentin Schneider]

Consider the following scenario under PREEMPT_RT:
o A CFS task p0 gets throttled while holding read_lock(&lock)
o A task p1 blocks on write_lock(&lock), making further readers enter the
  slowpath
o A ktimers or ksoftirqd task blocks on read_lock(&lock)

If the cfs_bandwidth.period_timer to replenish p0's runtime is enqueued on
the same CPU as one where ktimers/ksoftirqd is blocked on read_lock(&lock),
this creates a circular dependency.

This has been observed to happen with:
o fs/eventpoll.c::ep->lock
o net/netlink/af_netlink.c::nl_table_lock (after hand-fixing the above)
but can trigger with any rwlock that can be acquired in both process and
softirq contexts.

The linux-rt tree has had
  1ea50f9636f0 ("softirq: Use a dedicated thread for timer wakeups.")
which helped this scenario for non-rwlock locks by ensuring the throttled
task would get PI'd to FIFO1 (ktimers' default priority). Unfortunately,
rwlocks cannot sanely do PI as they allow multiple readers.

Make the period_timer expire in hardirq context under PREEMPT_RT. The
callback for this timer can end up doing a lot of work, but this is
mitigated somewhat when using nohz_full / CPU isolation: the timers *are*
pinned, but on the CPUs the taskgroups are created on, which is usually
going to be HK CPUs.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/xhsmhttqvnall.mognet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 8767988242ee3..15cf7de865a97 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6236,7 +6236,7 @@ void init_cfs_bandwidth(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b, struct cfs_bandwidth *paren
 	cfs_b->hierarchical_quota = parent ? parent->hierarchical_quota : RUNTIME_INF;
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cfs_b->throttled_cfs_rq);
-	hrtimer_init(&cfs_b->period_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED);
+	hrtimer_init(&cfs_b->period_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED_HARD);
 	cfs_b->period_timer.function = sched_cfs_period_timer;
 
 	/* Add a random offset so that timers interleave */
@@ -6263,7 +6263,7 @@ void start_cfs_bandwidth(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
 
 	cfs_b->period_active = 1;
 	hrtimer_forward_now(&cfs_b->period_timer, cfs_b->period);
-	hrtimer_start_expires(&cfs_b->period_timer, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED);
+	hrtimer_start_expires(&cfs_b->period_timer, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED_HARD);
 }
 
 static void destroy_cfs_bandwidth(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
-- 
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