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The recursion protection for eventfd_signal() is based on a per CPU variable and relies on the !RT semantics of spin_lock_irqsave() for protecting this per CPU variable. On RT kernels spin_lock_irqsave() neither disables preemption nor interrupts which allows the spin lock held section to be preempted. If the preempting task invokes eventfd_signal() as well, then the recursion warning triggers. Paolo suggested to protect the per CPU variable with a local lock, but that's heavyweight and actually not necessary. The goal of this protection is to prevent the task stack from overflowing, which can be achieved with a per task recursion protection as well. Replace the per CPU variable with a per task bit similar to other recursion protection bits like task_struct::in_page_owner. This works on both !RT and RT kernels and removes as a side effect the extra per CPU storage. No functional change for !RT kernels. Reported-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87wnp9idso.ffs@tglx
Linux kernel
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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.
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.