Re: [PATCH] hrtimer: prevent migration for raising softirq

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:56:00 -0400 (EDT) Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

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> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
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> > On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:31:26 -0400 (EDT)
> > Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
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> > > Due to a possible deadlock, the waking of the softirq was pushed outside
> > > of the hrtimer base locks. See commit 0c96c5979a522c3323c30a078a70120e29b5bdbc
> >
> > Please quote at least the patch title rather than raw hashes.
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> Sorry, will do next time. I'm getting to use to git.
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> > afaict that patch isn't in 2.6.25 yet you copied stable@kernel.org.
> > Please clarify.
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> The reason I did so is because that commit has a Cc: stable@kernel.org.
> I figured that if that patch is in queue for stable this one should be in
> right afterwards.
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> > > Unfortunately this allows the task to migrate after setting up the softirq
> > > and raising it. Since softirqs run a queue that is per-cpu we may raise the
> > > softirq on the wrong CPU and this will keep the queued softirq task from
> > > running.
> > >
> > > To solve this issue, this patch disables preemption around the releasing
> > > of the hrtimer lock and raising of the softirq.
> > >
> >
> > This seems to be 2.6.26 material and is inapplicable to 2.6.25?
> >
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> [/me goes to look at the 2.6.25.4 he has sitting around]
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> The above mentioned commit (Title: hrtimer: raise softirq unlocked to
> avoid circular lock dependency) is, in fact, in 2.6.25.4.
> 

Ah, OK, I'm a dope.