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      genirq: Disable interrupts for force threaded handlers · 81e2073c
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      With interrupt force threading all device interrupt handlers are invoked
      from kernel threads. Contrary to hard interrupt context the invocation only
      disables bottom halfs, but not interrupts. This was an oversight back then
      because any code like this will have an issue:
      
      thread(irq_A)
        irq_handler(A)
          spin_lock(&foo->lock);
      
      interrupt(irq_B)
        irq_handler(B)
          spin_lock(&foo->lock);
      
      This has been triggered with networking (NAPI vs. hrtimers) and console
      drivers where printk() happens from an interrupt which interrupted the
      force threaded handler.
      
      Now people noticed and started to change the spin_lock() in the handler to
      spin_lock_irqsave() which affects performance or add IRQF_NOTHREAD to the
      interrupt request which in turn breaks RT.
      
      Fix the root cause and not the symptom and disable interrupts before
      invoking the force threaded handler which preserves the regular semantics
      and the usefulness of the interrupt force threading as a general debugging
      tool.
      
      For not RT this is not changing much, except that during the execution of
      the threaded handler interrupts are delayed until the handler
      returns. Vs. scheduling and softirq processing there is no difference.
      
      For RT kernels there is no issue.
      
      Fixes: 8d32a307 ("genirq: Provide forced interrupt threading")
      Reported-by: default avatarJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210317143859.513307808@linutronix.de
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