The biggest change to core locking facilities in this cycle is the introduction
of local_lock_t - this primitive comes from the -rt project and identifies
CPU-local locking dependencies normally handled opaquely beind preempt_disable()
or local_irq_save/disable() critical sections.
The generated code on mainline kernels doesn't change as a result, but still there
are benefits: improved debugging and better documentation of data structure
accesses.
The new local_lock_t primitives are introduced and then utilized in a couple of
kernel subsystems. No change in functionality is intended.
There's also other smaller changes and cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
zram: Use local lock to protect per-CPU data
The zcomp driver uses per-CPU compression. The per-CPU data pointer is
acquired with get_cpu_ptr() which implicitly disables preemption.
It allocates memory inside the preempt disabled region which conflicts
with the PREEMPT_RT semantics.
Replace the implicit preemption control with an explicit local lock.
This allows RT kernels to substitute it with a real per CPU lock, which
serializes the access but keeps the code section preemptible. On non RT
kernels this maps to preempt_disable() as before, i.e. no functional
change.
[bigeasy: Use local_lock(), description, drop reordering]
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200527201119.1692513-8-bigeasy@linutronix.de
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