Re: [PATCH][Fix] cpuidle: Run tick_broadcast_exit() with disabled interrupts

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On Thursday, April 30, 2015 04:12:46 PM Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2015, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Commit 335f49196fd6 (sched/idle: Use explicit broadcast oneshot
> > control function) replaced clockevents_notify() invocations in
> > cpuidle_idle_call() with direct calls to tick_broadcast_enter()
> > and tick_broadcast_exit(), but it overlooked the fact that
> > interrupts were already enabled before calling the latter which
> > led to functional breakage on systems using idle states with the
> > CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP flag set.
> > 
> > Fix that by moving the invocations of tick_broadcast_enter()
> > and tick_broadcast_exit() down into cpuidle_enter_state() where
> > interrupts are still disabled when tick_broadcast_exit() is
> > called.  Also ensure that interrupts will be disabled before
> > running tick_broadcast_exit() even if they have been enabled by
> > the idle state's ->enter callback.  Trigger a WARN_ON_ONCE() in
> > that case, as we generally don't want that to happen for states
> > with CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP set.
> 
> Incidentally I was debugging this issue as well when I saw this thread.
> 
> And it turns out that I did report this issue 2 months ago:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1892049
> What happened?

The patch series had been picked up by someone else (me), reordered and rebased
in the meantime and your report was missed.  Sorry about that.

> > Fixes: 335f49196fd6 (sched/idle: Use explicit broadcast oneshot control function)
> > Reported-and-tested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-and-tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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