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Linus Torvalds 3eb86ff32e Mark HI and TASKLET softirq synchronous 
commit 3c53776e29 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
 		2018-08-15 18:12:47 +02:00
Documentation net: dsa: qca8k: Add QCA8334 binding documentation 2018-08-03 07:50:44 +02:00
arch parisc: Define mb() and add memory barriers to assembler unlock sequences 2018-08-15 18:12:46 +02:00
block block: reset bi_iter.bi_done after splitting bio 2018-08-03 07:50:42 +02:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto crypto: authenc - don't leak pointers to authenc keys 2018-08-03 07:50:40 +02:00
drivers scsi: virtio_scsi: fix IO hang caused by automatic irq vector affinity 2018-08-15 18:12:47 +02:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs jfs: Fix inconsistency between memory allocation and ea_buf->max_size 2018-08-09 12:16:39 +02:00
include kasan: add no_sanitize attribute for clang builds 2018-08-15 18:12:47 +02:00
init init: fix false positives in W+X checking 2018-06-21 04:02:57 +09:00
ipc ipc/shm: fix shmat() nil address after round-down when remapping 2018-05-30 07:51:49 +02:00
kernel Mark HI and TASKLET softirq synchronous 2018-08-15 18:12:47 +02:00
lib lib/rhashtable: consider param->min_size when setting initial table size 2018-07-25 11:25:09 +02:00
mm mm/slub.c: add __printf verification to slab_err() 2018-08-03 07:50:23 +02:00
net netlink: Don't shift on 64 for ngroups 2018-08-09 12:16:38 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Partially fixes the bpf.o build 2018-04-26 11:02:12 +02:00
scripts Kbuild: fix # escaping in .cmd files for future Make 2018-07-11 16:29:21 +02:00
security ima: based on policy verify firmware signatures (pre-allocated buffer) 2018-08-03 07:50:31 +02:00
sound ASoC: topology: Add missing clock gating parameter when parsing hw_configs 2018-08-03 07:50:42 +02:00
tools selftests: intel_pstate: return Kselftest Skip code for skipped tests 2018-08-03 07:50:27 +02:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM/Eventfd: Avoid crash when assign and deassign specific eventfd in parallel. 2018-07-25 11:25:07 +02:00
.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: rpm-pkg: keep spec file until make mrproper 2018-02-13 10:19:46 +01:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS dt-bindings: Document mti,mips-cpc binding 2018-03-15 10:54:35 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.62 2018-08-09 12:16:40 +02:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

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

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

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.