softirq: Use a dedicated thread for timer wakeups on PREEMPT_RT.

The timer and hrtimer soft interrupts are raised in hard interrupt
context. With threaded interrupts force enabled or on PREEMPT_RT this leads
to waking the ksoftirqd for the processing of the soft interrupt.

ksoftirqd runs as SCHED_OTHER task which means it will compete with other
tasks for CPU resources.  This can introduce long delays for timer
processing on heavy loaded systems and is not desired.

Split the TIMER_SOFTIRQ and HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ processing into a dedicated
timers thread and let it run at the lowest SCHED_FIFO priority.
Wake-ups for RT tasks happen from hardirq context so only timer_list timers
and hrtimers for "regular" tasks are processed here. The higher priority
ensures that wakeups are performed before scheduling SCHED_OTHER tasks.

Using a dedicated variable to store the pending softirq bits values ensure
that the timer are not accidentally picked up by ksoftirqd and other
threaded interrupts.

It shouldn't be picked up by ksoftirqd since it runs at lower priority.
However if ksoftirqd is already running while a timer fires, then ksoftird
will be PI-boosted due to the BH-lock to ktimer's priority.

The timer thread can pick up pending softirqs from ksoftirqd but only
if the softirq load is high. It is not be desired that the picked up
softirqs are processed at SCHED_FIFO priority under high softirq load
but this can already happen by a PI-boost by a force-threaded interrupt.

[ frederic@kernel.org: rcutorture.c fixes, storm fix by introduction of
  local_timers_pending() for tick_nohz_next_event() ]

[ junxiao.chang@intel.com: Ensure ktimersd gets woken up even if a
  softirq is currently served. ]

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> [rcutorture]
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241106150419.2593080-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de

5 files changed, 80 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index bb75dbf5c800..270c31a1e857 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -2440,6 +2440,14 @@ static int rcutorture_booster_init(unsigned int cpu)
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(!t);
 		sp.sched_priority = 2;
 		sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
+#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
+		if (force_irqthreads()) {
+			t = per_cpu(ktimerd, cpu);
+			WARN_ON_ONCE(!t);
+			sp.sched_priority = 2;
+			sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
+		}
+#endif
 	}
 
 	/* Don't allow time recalculation while creating a new task. */
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index d082e7840f88..7b525c904462 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -624,6 +624,24 @@ static inline void tick_irq_exit(void)
 #endif
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, ktimerd);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, pending_timer_softirq);
+
+static void wake_timersd(void)
+{
+	struct task_struct *tsk = __this_cpu_read(ktimerd);
+
+	if (tsk)
+		wake_up_process(tsk);
+}
+
+#else
+
+static inline void wake_timersd(void) { }
+
+#endif
+
 static inline void __irq_exit_rcu(void)
 {
 #ifndef __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED
@@ -636,6 +654,10 @@ static inline void __irq_exit_rcu(void)
 	if (!in_interrupt() && local_softirq_pending())
 		invoke_softirq();
 
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING) && force_irqthreads() &&
+	    local_timers_pending_force_th() && !(in_nmi() | in_hardirq()))
+		wake_timersd();
+
 	tick_irq_exit();
 }
 
@@ -971,12 +993,57 @@ static struct smp_hotplug_thread softirq_threads = {
 	.thread_comm		= "ksoftirqd/%u",
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
+static void ktimerd_setup(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+	/* Above SCHED_NORMAL to handle timers before regular tasks. */
+	sched_set_fifo_low(current);
+}
+
+static int ktimerd_should_run(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+	return local_timers_pending_force_th();
+}
+
+void raise_ktimers_thread(unsigned int nr)
+{
+	trace_softirq_raise(nr);
+	__this_cpu_or(pending_timer_softirq, BIT(nr));
+}
+
+static void run_ktimerd(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+	unsigned int timer_si;
+
+	ksoftirqd_run_begin();
+
+	timer_si = local_timers_pending_force_th();
+	__this_cpu_write(pending_timer_softirq, 0);
+	or_softirq_pending(timer_si);
+
+	__do_softirq();
+
+	ksoftirqd_run_end();
+}
+
+static struct smp_hotplug_thread timer_thread = {
+	.store			= &ktimerd,
+	.setup			= ktimerd_setup,
+	.thread_should_run	= ktimerd_should_run,
+	.thread_fn		= run_ktimerd,
+	.thread_comm		= "ktimers/%u",
+};
+#endif
+
 static __init int spawn_ksoftirqd(void)
 {
 	cpuhp_setup_state_nocalls(CPUHP_SOFTIRQ_DEAD, "softirq:dead", NULL,
 				  takeover_tasklets);
 	BUG_ON(smpboot_register_percpu_thread(&softirq_threads));
-
+#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
+	if (force_irqthreads())
+		BUG_ON(smpboot_register_percpu_thread(&timer_thread));
+#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 early_initcall(spawn_ksoftirqd);
diff --git a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
index 5402e0f24217..d9911516e743 100644
--- a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
@@ -1811,7 +1811,7 @@ retry:
 	if (!ktime_before(now, cpu_base->softirq_expires_next)) {
 		cpu_base->softirq_expires_next = KTIME_MAX;
 		cpu_base->softirq_activated = 1;
-		__raise_softirq_irqoff(HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ);
+		raise_timer_softirq(HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ);
 	}
 
 	__hrtimer_run_queues(cpu_base, now, flags, HRTIMER_ACTIVE_HARD);
@@ -1906,7 +1906,7 @@ void hrtimer_run_queues(void)
 	if (!ktime_before(now, cpu_base->softirq_expires_next)) {
 		cpu_base->softirq_expires_next = KTIME_MAX;
 		cpu_base->softirq_activated = 1;
-		__raise_softirq_irqoff(HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ);
+		raise_timer_softirq(HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ);
 	}
 
 	__hrtimer_run_queues(cpu_base, now, flags, HRTIMER_ACTIVE_HARD);
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 753a184c7090..976a212cca2e 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ static void tick_nohz_restart(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now)
 
 static inline bool local_timer_softirq_pending(void)
 {
-	return local_softirq_pending() & BIT(TIMER_SOFTIRQ);
+	return local_timers_pending() & BIT(TIMER_SOFTIRQ);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index 1759de934284..06f0bc1db6d9 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -2499,7 +2499,7 @@ static void run_local_timers(void)
 		 */
 		if (time_after_eq(jiffies, READ_ONCE(base->next_expiry)) ||
 		    (i == BASE_DEF && tmigr_requires_handle_remote())) {
-			__raise_softirq_irqoff(TIMER_SOFTIRQ);
+			raise_timer_softirq(TIMER_SOFTIRQ);
 			return;
 		}
 	}