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Commit 777570d9 authored by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior's avatar Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Committed by Paul E. McKenney
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rcu-tasks: Use schedule_hrtimeout_range() to wait for grace periods



The synchronous RCU-tasks grace-period-wait primitives invoke
schedule_timeout_idle() to give readers a chance to exit their
read-side critical sections.  Unfortunately, this fails during early
boot on PREEMPT_RT because PREEMPT_RT relies solely on ksoftirqd to run
timer handlers.  Because ksoftirqd cannot operate until its kthreads
are spawned, there is a brief period of time following scheduler
initialization where PREEMPT_RT cannot run the timer handlers that
schedule_timeout_idle() relies on, resulting in a hang.

To avoid this boot-time hang, this commit replaces schedule_timeout_idle()
with schedule_hrtimeout(), so that the timer expires in hardirq context.
This is ensures that the timer fires even on PREEMPT_RT throughout the
irqs-enabled portions of boot as well as during runtime.

The timer is set to expire between fract and fract + HZ / 2 jiffies in
order to align with any other timers that might expire during that time,
thus reducing the number of wakeups.

Note that RCU-tasks grace periods are infrequent, so the use of hrtimer
should be fine.  In contrast, in common-case code, user of hrtimer
could result in performance issues.

Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
parent 5d900708
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