timers: Restructure internal locking

Move the locking out from __run_timers() to the call sites, so the
protected section can be extended at the call site. Preparatory work for
changing the NOHZ timer placement to a pull at expiry time model.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran (linutronix GmbH) <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240221090548.36600-15-anna-maria@linutronix.de

Author: richardcochran

kernel/time/timer.c

@@ -2283,11 +2283,7 @@ static inline void __run_timers(struct timer_base *base)
 	struct hlist_head heads[LVL_DEPTH];
 	int levels;
 
-	if (time_before(jiffies, base->next_expiry))
-		return;
-
-	timer_base_lock_expiry(base);
-	raw_spin_lock_irq(&base->lock);
+	lockdep_assert_held(&base->lock);
 
 	while (time_after_eq(jiffies, base->clk) &&
 	       time_after_eq(jiffies, base->next_expiry)) {
@@ -2311,21 +2307,36 @@ static inline void __run_timers(struct timer_base *base)
 		while (levels--)
 			expire_timers(base, heads + levels);
 	}
+}
+
+static void __run_timer_base(struct timer_base *base)
+{
+	if (time_before(jiffies, base->next_expiry))
+		return;
+
+	timer_base_lock_expiry(base);
+	raw_spin_lock_irq(&base->lock);
+	__run_timers(base);
 	raw_spin_unlock_irq(&base->lock);
 	timer_base_unlock_expiry(base);
 }
 
+static void run_timer_base(int index)
+{
+	struct timer_base *base = this_cpu_ptr(&timer_bases[index]);
+
+	__run_timer_base(base);
+}
+
 /*
  * This function runs timers and the timer-tq in bottom half context.
  */
 static __latent_entropy void run_timer_softirq(struct softirq_action *h)
 {
-	struct timer_base *base = this_cpu_ptr(&timer_bases[BASE_LOCAL]);
-
-	__run_timers(base);
+	run_timer_base(BASE_LOCAL);
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON)) {
-		__run_timers(this_cpu_ptr(&timer_bases[BASE_GLOBAL]));
-		__run_timers(this_cpu_ptr(&timer_bases[BASE_DEF]));
+		run_timer_base(BASE_GLOBAL);
+		run_timer_base(BASE_DEF);
 	}
 }