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Commit 3c118547 authored by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior's avatar Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Committed by David S. Miller
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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: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent d147dd70
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