On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 10:46:47AM +0200, Juri Lelli wrote: > +static inline void cpuset_read_only_lock(unsigned long *flags) > +{ > + local_irq_save(*flags); > + preempt_disable(); > +} > + > +static inline void cpuset_read_only_unlock(unsigned long *flags) > +{ > + local_irq_restore(*flags); > + preempt_enable(); > +} You can ditch the preempt stuff. IRQs disabled already very much implies !preemptible.