6.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> commit cff9b2332ab762b7e0586c793c431a8f2ea4db04 upstream. Initial booting is setting the task flag to idle (PF_IDLE) by the call path sched_init() -> init_idle(). Having the task idle and calling call_rcu() in kernel/rcu/tiny.c means that TIF_NEED_RESCHED will be set. Subsequent calls to any cond_resched() will enable IRQs, potentially earlier than the IRQ setup has completed. Recent changes have caused just this scenario and IRQs have been enabled early. This causes a warning later in start_kernel() as interrupts are enabled before they are fully set up. Fix this issue by setting the PF_IDLE flag later in the boot sequence. Although the boot task was marked as idle since (at least) d80e4fda576d, I am not sure that it is wrong to do so. The forced context-switch on idle task was introduced in the tiny_rcu update, so I'm going to claim this fixes 5f6130fa52ee. Fixes: 5f6130fa52ee ("tiny_rcu: Directly force QS when call_rcu_[bh|sched]() on idle_task") Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAMuHMdWpvpWoDa=Ox-do92czYRvkok6_x6pYUH+ZouMcJbXy+Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +- kernel/sched/idle.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -9271,7 +9271,7 @@ void __init init_idle(struct task_struct * PF_KTHREAD should already be set at this point; regardless, make it * look like a proper per-CPU kthread. */ - idle->flags |= PF_IDLE | PF_KTHREAD | PF_NO_SETAFFINITY; + idle->flags |= PF_KTHREAD | PF_NO_SETAFFINITY; kthread_set_per_cpu(idle, cpu); #ifdef CONFIG_SMP --- a/kernel/sched/idle.c +++ b/kernel/sched/idle.c @@ -373,6 +373,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(play_idle_precise); void cpu_startup_entry(enum cpuhp_state state) { + current->flags |= PF_IDLE; arch_cpu_idle_prepare(); cpuhp_online_idle(state); while (1)