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SubjectRe: [PATCH x86/entry: Force rcu_irq_enter() when in idle task
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 03:55:00PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The idea of conditionally calling into rcu_irq_enter() only when RCU is
> not watching turned out to be not completely thought through.
>
> Paul noticed occasional premature end of grace periods in RCU torture
> testing. Bisection led to the commit which made the invocation of
> rcu_irq_enter() conditional on !rcu_is_watching().
>
> It turned out that this conditional breaks RCU assumptions about the idle
> task when the scheduler tick happens to be a nested interrupt. Nested
> interrupts can happen when the first interrupt invokes softirq processing
> on return which enables interrupts. If that nested tick interrupt does not
> invoke rcu_irq_enter() then the nest accounting in RCU claims that this is
> the first interrupt which might mark a quiescient state and end grace
> periods prematurely.
>
> Change the condition from !rcu_is_watching() to is_idle_task(current) which
> enforces that interrupts in the idle task unconditionally invoke
> rcu_irq_enter() independent of the RCU state.
>
> This is also correct vs. user mode entries in NOHZ full scenarios because
> user mode entries bring RCU out of EQS and force the RCU irq nesting state
> accounting to nested. As only the first interrupt can enter from user mode
> a nested tick interrupt will enter from kernel mode and as the nesting
> state accounting is forced to nesting it will not do anything stupid even
> if rcu_irq_enter() has not been invoked.
>
> Fixes: 3eeec3858488 ("x86/entry: Provide idtentry_entry/exit_cond_rcu()")
> Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>

So, in the end the call to rcu_irq_enter() in irq_enter() is going to
be useless in x86, right?

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