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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:33:41 -0600
From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
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To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] irq_work: Implement remote queueing
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On 06/10/2014 09:15 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> irq work currently only supports local callbacks. However its code
> is mostly ready to run remote callbacks and we have some potential user.
> 
> The full nohz subsystem currently open codes its own remote irq work
> on top of the scheduler ipi when it wants a CPU to reevaluate its next
> tick. However this ad hoc solution bloats the scheduler IPI.
> 
> Lets just extend the irq work subsystem to support remote queuing on top
> of the generic SMP IPI to handle this kind of user. This shouldn't add
> noticeable overhead.

I'm running next-20140624 on an ARM system, and this patch causes CPU
hot(un)plug to Oops for me; the following fires:

void irq_work_run(void)
{
	BUG_ON(!in_irq());

I found that Linus's master (8b8f5d971584 "Merge tag 'compress-3.16-rc3'
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core")
works fine. I found that this commit inside the tip(?) tree works fine
(478850160636 "irq_work: Implement remote queueing"). However, if I
merge the two together, I hit that BUG_ON.

I think the issue is:

This commit adds a call from
generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt() to irq_work_run().

Srivatsa's patch adds a call from hotplug_cfd() to
flush_smp_call_function_queue() to, which I imagine happens in
non-interrupt context. Note that this patch moves most of the body of
generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt() into
flush_smp_call_function_queue().
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