On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:30:58PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote: > cpu_enable_ssbs() is called via stop_machine() as part of the cpu_enable > callback. A spin lock is used to ensure the hook is registered before > the rest of the callback is executed. > > On -RT spin_lock() may sleep. However, all the callees in stop_machine() > are expected to not sleep. Therefore a raw_spin_lock() is required here. > > Given this is already done under stop_machine() and the work done under > the lock is quite small, the latency should not increase too much. > > Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@arm.com>
Queued for 5.3. Thanks. -- Catalin
