[tip:,core/urgent] entry/rcu: Check TIF_RESCHED _after_ delayed RCU wake-up

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Series [tip:,core/urgent] entry/rcu: Check TIF_RESCHED _after_ delayed RCU wake-up |

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tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner March 21, 2023, 2:20 p.m. UTC
  The following commit has been merged into the core/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     b416514054810cf2d2cc348ae477cea619b64da7
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/b416514054810cf2d2cc348ae477cea619b64da7
Author:        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
AuthorDate:    Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:43:43 
Committer:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CommitterDate: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:13:15 +01:00

entry/rcu: Check TIF_RESCHED _after_ delayed RCU wake-up

RCU sometimes needs to perform a delayed wake up for specific kthreads
handling offloaded callbacks (RCU_NOCB).  These wakeups are performed
by timers and upon entry to idle (also to guest and to 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@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230315194349.10798-3-joel@joelfernandes.org

---
 kernel/entry/common.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
  

Patch

diff --git a/kernel/entry/common.c b/kernel/entry/common.c
index 1314894..be61332 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);