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Commit c0ad4aa4 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched/fair: Robustify CFS-bandwidth timer locking


Traditionally hrtimer callbacks were run with IRQs disabled, but with
the introduction of HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT it is possible they run from
SoftIRQ context, which does _NOT_ have IRQs disabled.

Allow for the CFS bandwidth timers (period_timer and slack_timer) to
be ran from SoftIRQ context; this entails removing the assumption that
IRQs are already disabled from the locking.

While mainline doesn't strictly need this, -RT forces all timers not
explicitly marked with MODE_HARD into MODE_SOFT and trips over this.
And marking these timers as MODE_HARD doesn't make sense as they're
not required for RT operation and can potentially be quite expensive.

Reported-by: default avatarTom Putzeys <tom.putzeys@be.atlascopco.com>
Tested-by: default avatarMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190107125231.GE14122@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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