Re: [PATCH rcu v2] 4/5] rcu-tasks: Move RCU Tasks self-tests to core_initcall()

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2025-01-30 10:53:19 [-0800], Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> The timer and hrtimer softirq processing has moved to dedicated threads
> for kernels built with CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING=y.  This results in
> timers not expiring until later in early boot, which in turn causes the
> RCU Tasks self-tests to hang in kernels built with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y,
> which further causes the entire kernel to hang.  One fix would be to
> make timers work during this time, but there are no known users of RCU
> Tasks grace periods during that time, so no justification for the added
> complexity.  Not yet, anyway.
> 
> This commit therefore moves the call to rcu_init_tasks_generic() from
> kernel_init_freeable() to a core_initcall().  This works because the
> timer and hrtimer kthreads are created at early_initcall() time.

Fixes: 49a17639508c3 ("softirq: Use a dedicated thread for timer wakeups on PREEMPT_RT.")
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I played with it and I can reproduce the issue with !RT + threadirqs but
not with RT (which implies threadirqs).
Is there anything in RT that avoids the problem?

Thank you for debugging and the patch. 

Sebastian