Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/9] cpuidle: Move IRQ state validation

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Mon May 30 2022 - 07:36:53 EST


On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 11:27:53PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Make cpuidle_enter_state() consistent with the s2idle variant and
> verify ->enter() always returns with interrupts disabled.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c | 10 +++++-----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> @@ -234,7 +234,11 @@ int cpuidle_enter_state(struct cpuidle_d
> stop_critical_timings();
> if (!(target_state->flags & CPUIDLE_FLAG_RCU_IDLE))
> rcu_idle_enter();
> +
> entered_state = target_state->enter(dev, drv, index);
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!irqs_disabled()))
> + raw_local_irq_disable();

So it means that idle functions are supposed to return with IRQs disabled
without tracing, right? I can see that at least acpi_safe_halt() is using
the non-raw local_irq_disable().

> +
> if (!(target_state->flags & CPUIDLE_FLAG_RCU_IDLE))
> rcu_idle_exit();
> start_critical_timings();
> @@ -246,12 +250,8 @@ int cpuidle_enter_state(struct cpuidle_d
> /* The cpu is no longer idle or about to enter idle. */
> sched_idle_set_state(NULL);
>
> - if (broadcast) {
> - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!irqs_disabled()))
> - local_irq_disable();
> -
> + if (broadcast)
> tick_broadcast_exit();
> - }
>
> if (!cpuidle_state_is_coupled(drv, index))
> local_irq_enable();
>
>