[patch 14/19] softirq: Make softirq control and processing RT aware

[Thomas Gleixner]

Frederic,

On Tue, Nov 24 2020 at 01:13, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 01:06:15AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> Good point. Haven't thought about that. Let me have a look again.
>
> But I'm cooking a patchset which moves account_irq_enter_time() after
> HARDIRQ_OFFSET or SOFTIRQ_OFFSET is incremented. This will allow us to move
> tick_irq_enter() under this layout:
>
> 		 preempt_count_add(HARDIRQ_OFFSET)
> 		 lockdep_hardirq_enter()
> 		 tick_irq_enter()
> 		 account_irq_enter_time()
>
> This way tick_irq_enter() can be correctly handled by lockdep and we can remove
> the nasty hack which temporarily disables softirqs around it.
>
> And as a side effect it should also fix your issue.
>
> I should have that ready soonish.

Sounds to good to be true :)

Looking forward to it!

Thanks for taking care of that!

       tglx