On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:31:55AM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> It really does. The spin_lock() does disable preemption but this is not
> the problem. The thing is that the preempt_disable() is superfluous and
> it hurts Preempt-RT (and this is how I noticed it). Also the
> get_cpu_ptr
On 2017-06-28 11:22:05 [+0200], Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 06:16:47PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > Commit 583248e6620a ("iommu/iova: Disable preemption around use of
> > this_cpu_ptr()") disables preemption while accessing a per-CPU variable.
> > This does keep loc
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 06:16:47PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Commit 583248e6620a ("iommu/iova: Disable preemption around use of
> this_cpu_ptr()") disables preemption while accessing a per-CPU variable.
> This does keep lockdep quiet. However I don't see the point why it is
> bad if
Commit 583248e6620a ("iommu/iova: Disable preemption around use of
this_cpu_ptr()") disables preemption while accessing a per-CPU variable.
This does keep lockdep quiet. However I don't see the point why it is
bad if we get migrated after its access to another CPU.
__iova_rcache_insert() and __iova
