rcu-tasks: Use schedule_hrtimeout_range() to wait for grace periods
The synchronous RCU-tasks grace-period-wait primitives invoke schedule_timeout_idle() to give readers a chance to exit their read-side critical sections. Unfortunately, this fails during early boot on PREEMPT_RT because PREEMPT_RT relies solely on ksoftirqd to run timer handlers. Because ksoftirqd cannot operate until its kthreads are spawned, there is a brief period of time following scheduler initialization where PREEMPT_RT cannot run the timer handlers that schedule_timeout_idle() relies on, resulting in a hang. To avoid this boot-time hang, this commit replaces schedule_timeout_idle() with schedule_hrtimeout(), so that the timer expires in hardirq context. This is ensures that the timer fires even on PREEMPT_RT throughout the irqs-enabled portions of boot as well as during runtime. The timer is set to expire between fract and fract + HZ / 2 jiffies in order to align with any other timers that might expire during that time, thus reducing the number of wakeups. Note that RCU-tasks grace periods are infrequent, so the use of hrtimer should be fine. In contrast, in common-case code, user of hrtimer could result in performance issues. Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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