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commit 43789ef3f7d61aa7bed0cb2764e588fc990c30ef upstream. Entering RCU idle mode may cause a deferred wake up of an RCU NOCB_GP kthread (rcuog) to be serviced. Usually a local wake up happening while running the idle task is handled in one of the need_resched() checks carefully placed within the idle loop that can break to the scheduler. Unfortunately the call to rcu_idle_enter() is already beyond the last generic need_resched() check and we may halt the CPU with a resched request unhandled, leaving the task hanging. Fix this with splitting the rcuog wakeup handling from rcu_idle_enter() and place it before the last generic need_resched() check in the idle loop. It is then assumed that no call to call_rcu() will be performed after that in the idle loop until the CPU is put in low power mode. Fixes: 96d3fd0d315a (rcu: Break call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler and perf) Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210131230548.32970-3-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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