I was debugging a NIC driver when I noticed that when I enable threaded busypoll, bpftrace hangs when starting up. dmesg showed: rcu_tasks_wait_gp: rcu_tasks grace period number 85 (since boot) is 10658 jiffies old. rcu_tasks_wait_gp: rcu_tasks grace period number 85 (since boot) is 40793 jiffies old. rcu_tasks_wait_gp: rcu_tasks grace period number 85 (since boot) is 131273 jiffies old. rcu_tasks_wait_gp: rcu_tasks grace period number 85 (since boot) is 402058 jiffies old. INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks: 00000000769f52cd: .N nvcsw: 2/2 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/64 task:napi/eth2-8265 state:R running task stack:0 pid:48300 tgid:48300 ppid:2 task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00004000 Call Trace: ? napi_threaded_poll_loop+0x27c/0x2c0 ? __pfx_napi_threaded_poll+0x10/0x10 ? napi_threaded_poll+0x26/0x80 ? kthread+0xfa/0x240 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ? ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ? ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 The cause is that in threaded busypoll, the main loop is in napi_threaded_poll rather than napi_threaded_poll_loop, where the latter rarely iterates more than once within its loop. For rcu_softirq_qs_periodic inside napi_threaded_poll_loop to report its qs state, the last_qs must be 100ms behind, and this can't happen because napi_threaded_poll_loop rarely iterates in threaded busypoll, and each time napi_threaded_poll_loop is called last_qs is reset to latest jiffies. This patch changes so that in threaded busypoll, last_qs is saved in the outer napi_threaded_poll, and whether busy_poll_last_qs is NULL indicates whether napi_threaded_poll_loop is called for busypoll. This way last_qs would not reset to latest jiffies on each invocation of napi_threaded_poll_loop. Fixes: c18d4b190a46 ("net: Extend NAPI threaded polling to allow kthread based busy polling") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: YiFei Zhu --- net/core/dev.c | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index c1a9f7fdcffa9..4af4cf2d63a47 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -7794,11 +7794,12 @@ static int napi_thread_wait(struct napi_struct *napi) return -1; } -static void napi_threaded_poll_loop(struct napi_struct *napi, bool busy_poll) +static void napi_threaded_poll_loop(struct napi_struct *napi, + unsigned long *busy_poll_last_qs) { + unsigned long last_qs = busy_poll_last_qs ? *busy_poll_last_qs : jiffies; struct bpf_net_context __bpf_net_ctx, *bpf_net_ctx; struct softnet_data *sd; - unsigned long last_qs = jiffies; for (;;) { bool repoll = false; @@ -7827,12 +7828,12 @@ static void napi_threaded_poll_loop(struct napi_struct *napi, bool busy_poll) /* When busy poll is enabled, the old packets are not flushed in * napi_complete_done. So flush them here. */ - if (busy_poll) + if (busy_poll_last_qs) gro_flush_normal(&napi->gro, HZ >= 1000); local_bh_enable(); /* Call cond_resched here to avoid watchdog warnings. */ - if (repoll || busy_poll) { + if (repoll || busy_poll_last_qs) { rcu_softirq_qs_periodic(last_qs); cond_resched(); } @@ -7840,11 +7841,15 @@ static void napi_threaded_poll_loop(struct napi_struct *napi, bool busy_poll) if (!repoll) break; } + + if (busy_poll_last_qs) + *busy_poll_last_qs = last_qs; } static int napi_threaded_poll(void *data) { struct napi_struct *napi = data; + unsigned long last_qs = jiffies; bool want_busy_poll; bool in_busy_poll; unsigned long val; @@ -7862,7 +7867,7 @@ static int napi_threaded_poll(void *data) assign_bit(NAPI_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL, &napi->state, want_busy_poll); - napi_threaded_poll_loop(napi, want_busy_poll); + napi_threaded_poll_loop(napi, want_busy_poll ? &last_qs : NULL); } return 0; @@ -13175,7 +13180,7 @@ static void run_backlog_napi(unsigned int cpu) { struct softnet_data *sd = per_cpu_ptr(&softnet_data, cpu); - napi_threaded_poll_loop(&sd->backlog, false); + napi_threaded_poll_loop(&sd->backlog, NULL); } static void backlog_napi_setup(unsigned int cpu) -- 2.53.0.473.g4a7958ca14-goog