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| author | Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> | 2021-12-10 21:29:59 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2021-12-13 12:42:08 +0000 |
| commit | 3c118547f87e930d45a5787e386734015dd93b32 (patch) | |
| tree | 76e62351ce3aea4b3e7d86ba7eaf2721019b1243 /.gitignore | |
| parent | d147dd70902ea5cbfd4dfbd65e60733b3805f4c2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-3c118547f87e930d45a5787e386734015dd93b32.tar.bz2 | |
u64_stats: Disable preemption on 32bit UP+SMP PREEMPT_RT during updates.
On PREEMPT_RT the seqcount_t for synchronisation is required on 32bit
architectures even on UP because the softirq (and the threaded IRQ handler) can
be preempted.
With the seqcount_t for synchronisation, a reader with higher priority can
preempt the writer and then spin endlessly in read_seqcount_begin() while the
writer can't make progress.
To avoid such a lock up on PREEMPT_RT the writer must disable preemption during
the update. There is no need to disable interrupts because no writer is using
this API in hard-IRQ context on PREEMPT_RT.
Disable preemption on 32bit-RT within the u64_stats write section.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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