[PATCH 1/3] sched/preempt: Introduce preempt_{enable, disable}_bh()

Valentin Schneider valentin.schneider at arm.com
Thu Jul 22 10:51:55 PDT 2021


As pointed out by commit:

  cba08c5dc6dc ("x86/fpu: Make kernel FPU protection RT friendly")

local_bh_disable() is not sufficient under CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT for FPU
manipulation. This also affects at least arm64, so package the preemption /
softirq enablement handling into a pair of helpers.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider at arm.com>
---
 include/linux/bottom_half.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/bottom_half.h b/include/linux/bottom_half.h
index eed86eb0a1de..dd98d8c1eb0a 100644
--- a/include/linux/bottom_half.h
+++ b/include/linux/bottom_half.h
@@ -19,6 +19,24 @@ static inline void local_bh_disable(void)
 	__local_bh_disable_ip(_THIS_IP_, SOFTIRQ_DISABLE_OFFSET);
 }
 
+/*
+ * local_bh_disable() protects against both preemption and soft interrupts
+ * on !RT kernels.
+ *
+ * On RT kernels local_bh_disable() is not sufficient because it only
+ * serializes soft interrupt related sections via a local lock, but stays
+ * preemptible. Disabling preemption is the right choice here as bottom
+ * half processing is always in thread context on RT kernels so it
+ * implicitly prevents bottom half processing as well.
+ */
+static inline void preempt_disable_bh(void)
+{
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
+		preempt_disable();
+	else
+		local_bh_disable();
+}
+
 extern void _local_bh_enable(void);
 extern void __local_bh_enable_ip(unsigned long ip, unsigned int cnt);
 
@@ -32,6 +50,14 @@ static inline void local_bh_enable(void)
 	__local_bh_enable_ip(_THIS_IP_, SOFTIRQ_DISABLE_OFFSET);
 }
 
+static inline void preempt_enable_bh(void)
+{
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
+		preempt_enable();
+	else
+		local_bh_enable();
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
 extern bool local_bh_blocked(void);
 #else
-- 
2.25.1




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