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Commit 6991436c authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched/core: Provide a scheduling point for RT locks



RT enabled kernels substitute spin/rwlocks with 'sleeping' variants based
on rtmutexes. Blocking on such a lock is similar to preemption versus:

 - I/O scheduling and worker handling, because these functions might block
   on another substituted lock, or come from a lock contention within these
   functions.

 - RCU considers this like a preemption, because the task might be in a read
   side critical section.

Add a separate scheduling point for this, and hand a new scheduling mode
argument to __schedule() which allows, along with separate mode masks, to
handle this gracefully from within the scheduler, without proliferating that
to other subsystems like RCU.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210815211302.372319055@linutronix.de
parent b4bfa3fc
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