From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 03:07:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] rcutorture: Also force sched priority to timersd on
boosting test.
ksoftirqd is statically boosted to the priority level right above the
one of rcu_torture_boost() so that timers, which torture readers rely on,
get a chance to run while rcu_torture_boost() is polling.
However timers processing got split from ksoftirqd into their own kthread
(timersd) that isn't boosted. It has the same SCHED_FIFO low prio as
rcu_torture_boost() and therefore timers can't preempt it and may
starve.
The issue can be triggered in practice on v5.17.1-rt17 using:
./kvm.sh --allcpus --configs TREE04 --duration 10m --kconfig "CONFIG_EXPERT=y CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y"
Fix this with statically boosting timersd just like is done with
ksoftirqd in commit
ea6d962e80b61 ("rcutorture: Judge RCU priority boosting on grace periods, not callbacks")
Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220405010752.1347437-1-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
---
include/linux/interrupt.h | 1 +
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 6 ++++++
kernel/softirq.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-6.3.1-rt13/include/linux/interrupt.h
===================================================================
@ linux-6.3.1-rt13/include/linux/interrupt.h:609 @ extern void raise_softirq_irqoff(unsigne
extern void raise_softirq(unsigned int nr);
#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, timersd);
extern void raise_timer_softirq(void);
extern void raise_hrtimer_softirq(void);
Index: linux-6.3.1-rt13/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
===================================================================
--- linux-6.3.1-rt13.orig/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ linux-6.3.1-rt13/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@ linux-6.3.1-rt13/include/linux/interrupt.h:2410 @ static int rcutorture_booster_init(unsig
WARN_ON_ONCE(!t);
sp.sched_priority = 2;
sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
+ t = per_cpu(timersd, cpu);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!t);
+ sp.sched_priority = 2;
+ sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
+#endif
}
/* Don't allow time recalculation while creating a new task. */
Index: linux-6.3.1-rt13/kernel/softirq.c
===================================================================
--- linux-6.3.1-rt13.orig/kernel/softirq.c
+++ linux-6.3.1-rt13/kernel/softirq.c
@ linux-6.3.1-rt13/include/linux/interrupt.h:623 @ static inline void tick_irq_exit(void)
}
#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, timersd);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, timersd);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, pending_timer_softirq);
static unsigned int local_pending_timers(void)