The patch titled Subject: lib/irq_poll: Add local_bh_disable() in irq_poll_cpu_dead() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was lib-irq_poll-add-local_bh_disable-in-irq_poll_cpu_dead.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: lib/irq_poll: Add local_bh_disable() in irq_poll_cpu_dead() irq_poll_cpu_dead() pulls the blk_cpu_iopoll backlog from the dead CPU and raises the POLL softirq with __raise_softirq_irqoff() on the CPU it is running on. That just sets the bit in the pending softirq mask. This means the handling of the softirq is delayed until the next interrupt or a local_bh_disable/enable() pair. As a consequence the CPU on which this code runs can reach idle with the POLL softirq pending, which triggers a warning in the NOHZ idle code. Add a local_bh_disable/enable() pair around the interrupts disabled section in irq_poll_cpu_dead(). local_bh_enable will handle the pending softirq. [@linutronix.de: massaged changelog and comment] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87k0bxgl27.ffs@tglx Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/irq_poll.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/lib/irq_poll.c~lib-irq_poll-add-local_bh_disable-in-irq_poll_cpu_dead +++ a/lib/irq_poll.c @@ -188,14 +188,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(irq_poll_init); 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 + * If a CPU goes away, splice its entries to the current CPU and + * set the POLL softirq bit. The local_bh_disable()/enable() pair + * ensures that it is handled. Otherwise the current CPU could + * reach idle with the POLL softirq pending. */ + 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; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are