RCU sometimes needs to perform a delayed wake up for specific kthreads
handling callbacks offloading (RCU_NOCB). This is handled through timers
and upon entry to idle (also guest and user on nohz_full).
However the delayed wake-up on kernel exit is actually performed after
the thread flags are fetched towards the fast path check for work to
do on exit to user. As a result, and if there is no other pending work
to do upon that kernel exit, the current task will resume to userspace
with TIF_RESCHED set and the pending wake up ignored.
Fix this with fetching the thread flags _after_ the delayed RCU-nocb
kthread wake-up.
Fixes: 47b8ff194c1f ("entry: Explicitly flush pending rcuog wakeup before last rescheduling point")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/entry/common.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/entry/common.c b/kernel/entry/common.c
index 846add8394c4..a134e26b58c6 100644
--- a/kernel/entry/common.c
+++ b/kernel/entry/common.c
@@ -192,13 +192,14 @@ static unsigned long exit_to_user_mode_loop(struct pt_regs *regs,
static void exit_to_user_mode_prepare(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- unsigned long ti_work = read_thread_flags();
+ unsigned long ti_work;
lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();
/* Flush pending rcuog wakeup before the last need_resched() check */
tick_nohz_user_enter_prepare();
+ ti_work = read_thread_flags();
if (unlikely(ti_work & EXIT_TO_USER_MODE_WORK))
ti_work = exit_to_user_mode_loop(regs, ti_work);
--
2.25.1
