Commit 3253cb49 authored by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior's avatar Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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softirq: Allow to drop the softirq-BKL lock on PREEMPT_RT



softirqs are preemptible on PREEMPT_RT. There is synchronisation between
individual sections which disable bottom halves. This in turn means that
a forced threaded interrupt cannot preempt another forced threaded
interrupt. Instead it will PI-boost the other handler and wait for its
completion.

This is required because code within a softirq section is assumed to be
non-preemptible and may expect exclusive access to per-CPU resources
such as variables or pinned timers.

Code with such expectation has been identified and updated to use
local_lock_nested_bh() for locking of the per-CPU resource. This means the
softirq lock can be removed.

Disable the softirq synchronization, but add a new config switch
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_NEEDS_BH_LOCK which allows to re-enable the synchronized
behavior in case that there are issues, which haven't been detected yet.

The softirq_ctrl.cnt accounting remains to let the NOHZ code know if
softirqs are currently handled.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent fd4e876f
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