[PATCH 06/10] timer: Report ignored local enqueue in nohz mode

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Thu Mar 11 2021 - 07:38:33 EST


Enqueuing a local timer after the tick has been stopped will result in
the timer being ignored until the next random interrupt.

Perform sanity checks to report these situations.

Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index ca2bb629595f..24552911f92b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -674,6 +674,22 @@ int get_nohz_timer_target(void)
return cpu;
}

+/* Make sure the timer won't be ignored in dynticks-idle case */
+static void wake_idle_assert_possible(void)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
+ /*
+ * Timers are re-evaluated after idle IRQs. In case of softirq,
+ * we assume IRQ tail. Ksoftirqd shouldn't reach here as the
+ * timer base wouldn't be idle. And inline softirq processing
+ * after a call to local_bh_enable() within idle loop sound too
+ * fun to be considered here.
+ */
+ WARN_ONCE(in_task(),
+ "Late timer enqueue may be ignored\n");
+#endif
+}
+
/*
* When add_timer_on() enqueues a timer into the timer wheel of an
* idle CPU then this timer might expire before the next timer event
@@ -688,8 +704,10 @@ static void wake_up_idle_cpu(int cpu)
{
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);

- if (cpu == smp_processor_id())
+ if (cpu == smp_processor_id()) {
+ wake_idle_assert_possible();
return;
+ }

if (set_nr_and_not_polling(rq->idle))
smp_send_reschedule(cpu);
--
2.25.1