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Commit 40bea039 authored by Frederic Weisbecker's avatar Frederic Weisbecker
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nohz: Restore NMI safe local irq work for local nohz kick



The local nohz kick is currently used by perf which needs it to be
NMI-safe. Recent commit though (7d1311b9)
changed its implementation to fire the local kick using the remote kick
API. It was convenient to make the code more generic but the remote kick
isn't NMI-safe.

As a result:

	WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 18062 at kernel/irq_work.c:72 irq_work_queue_on+0x11e/0x140()
	CPU: 3 PID: 18062 Comm: trinity-subchil Not tainted 3.16.0+ #34
	0000000000000009 00000000903774d1 ffff880244e06c00 ffffffff9a7f1e37
	0000000000000000 ffff880244e06c38 ffffffff9a0791dd ffff880244fce180
	0000000000000003 ffff880244e06d58 ffff880244e06ef8 0000000000000000
	Call Trace:
	<NMI>  [<ffffffff9a7f1e37>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a
	[<ffffffff9a0791dd>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0
	[<ffffffff9a07930a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
	[<ffffffff9a17ca1e>] irq_work_queue_on+0x11e/0x140
	[<ffffffff9a10a2c7>] tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu+0x57/0x90
	[<ffffffff9a186cd5>] __perf_event_overflow+0x275/0x350
	[<ffffffff9a184f80>] ? perf_event_task_disable+0xa0/0xa0
	[<ffffffff9a01a4cf>] ? x86_perf_event_set_period+0xbf/0x150
	[<ffffffff9a187934>] perf_event_overflow+0x14/0x20
	[<ffffffff9a020386>] intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x206/0x410
	[<ffffffff9a0b54d3>] ? arch_vtime_task_switch+0x63/0x130
	[<ffffffff9a01937b>] perf_event_nmi_handler+0x2b/0x50
	[<ffffffff9a007b72>] nmi_handle+0xd2/0x390
	[<ffffffff9a007aa5>] ? nmi_handle+0x5/0x390
	[<ffffffff9a0d131b>] ? lock_release+0xab/0x330
	[<ffffffff9a008062>] default_do_nmi+0x72/0x1c0
	[<ffffffff9a0c925f>] ? cpuacct_account_field+0xcf/0x200
	[<ffffffff9a008268>] do_nmi+0xb8/0x100

Lets fix this by restoring the use of local irq work for the nohz local
kick.

Reported-by: default avatarCatalin Iacob <iacobcatalin@gmail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
parent 69e273c0
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