__raise_softirq_irqoff() adds a bit to the pending sofirq mask and this is it. The softirq won't be handled in a deterministic way but randomly when an interrupt fires and handles softirq in its irq_exit() routine or if something randomly checks and handles pending softirqs in the call chain before the CPU goes idle. Add a local_bh_disable/enable() around the IRQ-off section which will handle pending softirqs. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/irq_poll.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/irq_poll.c b/lib/irq_poll.c index 2f17b488d58e1..2b9f797642f60 100644 --- a/lib/irq_poll.c +++ b/lib/irq_poll.c @@ -191,11 +191,13 @@ static int irq_poll_cpu_dead(unsigned int cpu) * If a CPU goes away, splice its entries to the current CPU * and trigger a run of the softirq */ + local_bh_disable(); local_irq_disable(); list_splice_init(&per_cpu(blk_cpu_iopoll, cpu), this_cpu_ptr(&blk_cpu_iopoll)); __raise_softirq_irqoff(IRQ_POLL_SOFTIRQ); local_irq_enable(); + local_bh_enable(); return 0; } -- 2.33.0
