sched/core: Prevent wakeup of ksoftirqd during idle load balance

Scheduler raises a SCHED_SOFTIRQ to trigger a load balancing event on
from the IPI handler on the idle CPU. If the SMP function is invoked
from an idle CPU via flush_smp_call_function_queue() then the HARD-IRQ
flag is not set and raise_softirq_irqoff() needlessly wakes ksoftirqd
because soft interrupts are handled before ksoftirqd get on the CPU.

Adding a trace_printk() in nohz_csd_func() at the spot of raising
SCHED_SOFTIRQ and enabling trace events for sched_switch, sched_wakeup,
and softirq_entry (for SCHED_SOFTIRQ vector alone) helps observing the
current behavior:

       <idle>-0   [000] dN.1.:  nohz_csd_func: Raising SCHED_SOFTIRQ from nohz_csd_func
       <idle>-0   [000] dN.4.:  sched_wakeup: comm=ksoftirqd/0 pid=16 prio=120 target_cpu=000
       <idle>-0   [000] .Ns1.:  softirq_entry: vec=7 [action=SCHED]
       <idle>-0   [000] .Ns1.:  softirq_exit: vec=7  [action=SCHED]
       <idle>-0   [000] d..2.:  sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/0 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=ksoftirqd/0 next_pid=16 next_prio=120
  ksoftirqd/0-16  [000] d..2.:  sched_switch: prev_comm=ksoftirqd/0 prev_pid=16 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper/0 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
       ...

Use __raise_softirq_irqoff() to raise the softirq. The SMP function call
is always invoked on the requested CPU in an interrupt handler. It is
guaranteed that soft interrupts are handled at the end.

Following are the observations with the changes when enabling the same
set of events:

       <idle>-0       [000] dN.1.: nohz_csd_func: Raising SCHED_SOFTIRQ for nohz_idle_balance
       <idle>-0       [000] dN.1.: softirq_raise: vec=7 [action=SCHED]
       <idle>-0       [000] .Ns1.: softirq_entry: vec=7 [action=SCHED]

No unnecessary ksoftirqd wakeups are seen from idle task's context to
service the softirq.

Fixes: b2a02fc ("smp: Optimize send_call_function_single_ipi()")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ [1]
Reported-by: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Author: kudureranganath

kernel/sched/core.c

@@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ static void nohz_csd_func(void *info)
 	rq->idle_balance = idle_cpu(cpu);
 	if (rq->idle_balance) {
 		rq->nohz_idle_balance = flags;
-		raise_softirq_irqoff(SCHED_SOFTIRQ);
+		__raise_softirq_irqoff(SCHED_SOFTIRQ);
 	}
 }