Re: [PATCH 2/7] nohz: New tick dependency mask

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 11:20:28PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > +	prev = fetch_or(dep, BIT_MASK(bit));
> > > +	if (!prev) {
> > > +		/*
> > > +		* We need the IPIs to be sent from sane process context.
> > 
> > Why ?
> 
> Because posix timers code is all called with interrupts disabled and we can't
> send IPIs then.
> 
> > 
> > > +		* The posix cpu timers are always set with irqs disabled.
> > > +		*/
> > > +		schedule_work(&kick_all_work);
> > > +	}
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +/*
> > > + * Set a global tick dependency. Lets do the wide IPI kick asynchronously
> > > + * for callers with irqs disabled.
> > 
> > This seems to suggest you can call this with IRQs disabled
> 
> Ah right, that's a misleading comment. We need to use the _delayed() version
> when interrupts are disabled.

Why can't you use tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu() for all that, which is
usable from IRQ context and avoid all that delayed muck?