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Commit 19f545b6 authored by Mike Galbraith's avatar Mike Galbraith Committed by Ingo Molnar
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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: default avatarMike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200527201119.1692513-8-bigeasy@linutronix.de
parent ed19f192
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