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Linus Torvalds 3c53776e29 Mark HI and TASKLET softirq synchronous 
Way back in 4.9, we committed 4cd13c21b2 ("softirq: Let ksoftirqd do
its job"), and ever since we've had small nagging issues with it.  For
example, we've had:

  1ff688209e ("watchdog: core: make sure the watchdog_worker is not deferred")
  8d5755b3f7 ("watchdog: softdog: fire watchdog even if softirqs do not get to run")
  217f697436 ("net: busy-poll: allow preemption in sk_busy_loop()")

all of which worked around some of the effects of that commit.

The DVB people have also complained that the commit causes excessive USB
URB latencies, which seems to be due to the USB code using tasklets to
schedule USB traffic.  This seems to be an issue mainly when already
living on the edge, but waiting for ksoftirqd to handle it really does
seem to cause excessive latencies.

Now Hanna Hawa reports that this issue isn't just limited to USB URB and
DVB, but also causes timeout problems for the Marvell SoC team:

 "I'm facing kernel panic issue while running raid 5 on sata disks
  connected to Macchiatobin (Marvell community board with Armada-8040
  SoC with 4 ARMv8 cores of CA72) Raid 5 built with Marvell DMA engine
  and async_tx mechanism (ASYNC_TX_DMA [=y]); the DMA driver (mv_xor_v2)
  uses a tasklet to clean the done descriptors from the queue"

The latency problem causes a panic:

  mv_xor_v2 f0400000.xor: dma_sync_wait: timeout!
  Kernel panic - not syncing: async_tx_quiesce: DMA error waiting for transaction

We've discussed simply just reverting the original commit entirely, and
also much more involved solutions (with per-softirq threads etc).  This
patch is intentionally stupid and fairly limited, because the issue
still remains, and the other solutions either got sidetracked or had
other issues.

We should probably also consider the timer softirqs to be synchronous
and not be delayed to ksoftirqd (since they were the issue with the
earlier watchdog problems), but that should be done as a separate patch.
This does only the tasklet cases.

Reported-and-tested-by: Hanna Hawa <hannah@marvell.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Josef Griebichler <griebichler.josef@gmx.at>
Reported-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 		2018-07-17 11:12:43 -07:00
Documentation Kbuild fixes for v4.18 (2nd) 2018-07-13 12:15:12 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
arch ARM: SoC fixes for 4.18-rc 2018-07-15 09:49:21 -07:00
block for-linus-20180713 2018-07-14 12:28:00 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist: fix const confusion 2018-06-26 09:43:03 -07:00
crypto Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL 2018-06-28 10:40:47 -07:00
drivers Pin control fixes for v4.18: 2018-07-16 10:24:52 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs reiserfs: fix buffer overflow with long warning messages 2018-07-14 11:11:10 -07:00
include mm: don't do zero_resv_unavail if memmap is not allocated 2018-07-16 09:41:57 -07:00
init Kbuild fixes for v4.18 2018-06-30 13:05:30 -07:00
ipc ipc: use new return type vm_fault_t 2018-06-15 07:55:25 +09:00
kernel Mark HI and TASKLET softirq synchronous 2018-07-17 11:12:43 -07:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-07-02 11:18:28 -07:00
mm mm: don't do zero_resv_unavail if memmap is not allocated 2018-07-16 09:41:57 -07:00
net net/9p/client.c: put refcount of trans_mod in error case in parse_opts() 2018-07-14 11:11:09 -07:00
samples sample: vfio-mdev: avoid deadlock in mdev_access() 2018-07-11 13:22:41 -06:00
scripts checkpatch: fix duplicate invalid vsprintf pointer extension '%p<foo>' messages 2018-07-14 11:11:10 -07:00
security selinux/stable-4.18 PR 20180629 2018-06-30 11:15:12 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/ca0132: Update a pci quirk device name 2018-07-12 09:18:31 +02:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-07-13 13:33:09 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM: arm64: Prevent KVM_COMPAT from being selected 2018-06-21 17:17:50 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'asoc-4.17' into asoc-4.18 for compress dependencies 2018-04-26 12:24:28 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: add basic helper macros to scripts/Kconfig.include 2018-05-29 03:31:19 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Char/Misc fixes for 4.18-rc5 2018-07-11 10:10:50 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.18-rc5 2018-07-15 12:49:31 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.