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[195.250.132.146]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-47d7f653c78sm33651745e9.11.2026.01.06.01.10.50 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 06 Jan 2026 01:10:50 -0800 (PST) From: Petr Tesarik To: Steven Rostedt , Masami Hiramatsu , Mathieu Desnoyers , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Clark Williams Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev, Petr Tesarik Subject: [PATCH] ring-buffer: Use a housekeeping CPU to wake up waiters Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 10:10:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20260106091039.2012108-1-ptesarik@suse.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.52.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Avoid running the wakeup irq_work on an isolated CPU. Since the wakeup can run on any CPU, let's pick a housekeeping CPU to do the job. This change reduces additional noise when tracing isolated CPUs. For example, the following ipi_send_cpu stack trace was captured with nohz_full=3D2 on the isolated CPU: -0 [002] d.h4. 1255.379293: ipi_send_cpu: cpu=3D2 ca= llsite=3Dirq_work_queue+0x2d/0x50 callback=3Drb_wake_up_waiters+0x0/0x80 -0 [002] d.h4. 1255.379329: =3D> trace_event_raw_event_ipi_send_cpu =3D> __irq_work_queue_local =3D> irq_work_queue =3D> ring_buffer_unlock_commit =3D> trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs =3D> trace_event_buffer_commit =3D> trace_event_raw_event_x86_irq_vector =3D> __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt =3D> sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt =3D> asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt =3D> pv_native_safe_halt =3D> default_idle =3D> default_idle_call =3D> do_idle =3D> cpu_startup_entry =3D> start_secondary =3D> common_startup_64 The IRQ work interrupt alone adds considerable noise, but the impact can get even worse with PREEMPT_RT, because the IRQ work interrupt is then handled by a separate kernel thread. This requires a task switch and makes tracing useless for analyzing latency on an isolated CPU. Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 41c9f5d079beb..ed9160599091d 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ * * Copyright (C) 2008 Steven Rostedt */ +#include #include #include #include @@ -4011,19 +4012,31 @@ static void rb_commit(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *c= pu_buffer) rb_end_commit(cpu_buffer); } =20 +static inline bool +rb_irq_work_queue(struct rb_irq_work *irq_work) +{ + int cpu =3D housekeeping_any_cpu(HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE); + + /* + * If CPU isolation is not active, cpu is always the current + * CPU, and the following is equivallent to irq_work_queue(). + */ + return irq_work_queue_on(&irq_work->work, cpu); +} + static __always_inline void rb_wakeups(struct trace_buffer *buffer, struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_bu= ffer) { if (buffer->irq_work.waiters_pending) { buffer->irq_work.waiters_pending =3D false; /* irq_work_queue() supplies it's own memory barriers */ - irq_work_queue(&buffer->irq_work.work); + rb_irq_work_queue(&buffer->irq_work); } =20 if (cpu_buffer->irq_work.waiters_pending) { cpu_buffer->irq_work.waiters_pending =3D false; /* irq_work_queue() supplies it's own memory barriers */ - irq_work_queue(&cpu_buffer->irq_work.work); + rb_irq_work_queue(&cpu_buffer->irq_work); } =20 if (cpu_buffer->last_pages_touch =3D=3D local_read(&cpu_buffer->pages_tou= ched)) @@ -4043,7 +4056,7 @@ rb_wakeups(struct trace_buffer *buffer, struct ring_b= uffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer) cpu_buffer->irq_work.wakeup_full =3D true; cpu_buffer->irq_work.full_waiters_pending =3D false; /* irq_work_queue() supplies it's own memory barriers */ - irq_work_queue(&cpu_buffer->irq_work.work); + rb_irq_work_queue(&cpu_buffer->irq_work); } =20 #ifdef CONFIG_RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION --=20 2.52.0