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| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 32 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index f49b844..aa5a5a1 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -3277,6 +3277,36 @@ int netif_rx_ni(struct sk_buff *skb) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_rx_ni); +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL +/* + * RT runs ksoftirqd as a real time thread and the root_lock is a + * "sleeping spinlock". If the trylock fails then we can go into an + * infinite loop when ksoftirqd preempted the task which actually + * holds the lock, because we requeue q and raise NET_TX softirq + * causing ksoftirqd to loop forever. + * + * It's safe to use spin_lock on RT here as softirqs run in thread + * context and cannot deadlock against the thread which is holding + * root_lock. + * + * On !RT the trylock might fail, but there we bail out from the + * softirq loop after 10 attempts which we can't do on RT. And the + * task holding root_lock cannot be preempted, so the only downside of + * that trylock is that we need 10 loops to decide that we should have + * given up in the first one :) + */ +static inline int take_root_lock(spinlock_t *lock) +{ + spin_lock(lock); + return 1; +} +#else +static inline int take_root_lock(spinlock_t *lock) +{ + return spin_trylock(lock); +} +#endif + static void net_tx_action(struct softirq_action *h) { struct softnet_data *sd = &__get_cpu_var(softnet_data); @@ -3315,7 +3345,7 @@ static void net_tx_action(struct softirq_action *h) head = head->next_sched; root_lock = qdisc_lock(q); - if (spin_trylock(root_lock)) { + if (take_root_lock(root_lock)) { smp_mb__before_clear_bit(); clear_bit(__QDISC_STATE_SCHED, &q->state); |