s390/wti: Prepare graceful CPU pre-emption on wti reception

When a warning track interrupt is received, the kernel has only a very
limited amount of time to make sure, that the CPU can be yielded as
gracefully as possible before being pre-empted by the hypervisor.

The interrupt handler for the wti therefore unparks a kernel thread
which has being created on boot re-using the CPU hotplug kernel thread
infrastructure. These threads exist per CPU and are assigned the
highest possible real-time priority. This makes sure, that said threads
will execute as soon as possible as the scheduler should pre-empt any
other running user tasks to run the real-time thread.

Furthermore, the interrupt handler disables all I/O interrupts to
prevent additional interrupt processing on the soon-preempted CPU.
Interrupt handlers are likely to take kernel locks, which in the worst
case, will be kept while the interrupt handler is pre-empted from itself
underlying physical CPU. In that case, all tasks or interrupt handlers
on other CPUs would have to wait for the pre-empted CPU being dispatched
again. By preventing further interrupt processing, this risk is
minimized.

Once the CPU gets dispatched again, the real-time kernel thread regains
control, reenables interrupts and parks itself again.

Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mete Durlu <meted@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tobias Huschle <huschle@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
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Tobias Huschle
2024-08-12 13:39:28 +02:00
committed by Vasily Gorbik
parent 2c6c9ccc76
commit cafeff5a03
2 changed files with 142 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ obj-y += sysinfo.o lgr.o os_info.o ctlreg.o
obj-y += runtime_instr.o cache.o fpu.o dumpstack.o guarded_storage.o sthyi.o
obj-y += entry.o reipl.o kdebugfs.o alternative.o
obj-y += nospec-branch.o ipl_vmparm.o machine_kexec_reloc.o unwind_bc.o
obj-y += smp.o text_amode31.o stacktrace.o abs_lowcore.o facility.o uv.o
obj-y += smp.o text_amode31.o stacktrace.o abs_lowcore.o facility.o uv.o wti.o
extra-y += vmlinux.lds