nohz: Prevent a timer interrupt storm in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()
commit 5d62c183 upstream. The conditions in irq_exit() to invoke tick_nohz_irq_exit() which subsequently invokes tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() are: if ((idle_cpu(cpu) && !need_resched()) || tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu)) If need_resched() is not set, but a timer softirq is pending then this is an indication that the softirq code punted and delegated the execution to softirqd. need_resched() is not true because the current interrupted task takes precedence over softirqd. Invoking tick_nohz_irq_exit() in this case can cause an endless loop of timer interrupts because the timer wheel contains an expired timer, but softirqs are not yet executed. So it returns an immediate expiry request, which causes the timer to fire immediately again. Lather, rinse and repeat.... Prevent that by adding a check for a pending timer soft interrupt to the conditions in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() which avoid calling get_next_timer_interrupt(). That keeps the tick sched timer on the tick and prevents a repetitive programming of an already expired timer. Reported-by: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.d> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1712272156050.2431@nanosSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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