[PATCH 0/3] sched, x86, arm64: PREEMPT_RT, FPU and preemption

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 19:53, Valentin Schneider
<valentin.schneider at arm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> This stems from some more v5.13-rt1 breakage on arm64. This time per-CPU access
> safety isn't sufficient, we really need to keep preemption disabled.
>
> In a happy accident I stumbled on
>
>   cba08c5dc6dc ("x86/fpu: Make kernel FPU protection RT friendly")
>
> so I packaged what was done there into some common helpers and plastered them
> over the problematic areas.
>
> Cheers,
> Valentin
>
> Valentin Schneider (3):
>   sched/preempt: Introduce preempt_{enable, disable}_bh()
>   x86/fpu: Make FPU protection reuse common helper
>   arm64/fpsimd: Fix FPSIMD context handling vs PREEMPT_RT
>

Thanks for fixing this.

Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>


>  arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c     |  6 ++++--
>  arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/api.h | 19 ++-----------------
>  include/linux/bottom_half.h    | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.25.1
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