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

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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: 47b8ff194c ("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
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Frederic Weisbecker 2023-03-15 19:43:43 +00:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent f87d28673b
commit b416514054
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@ -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);