Replace preempt_enable() and preempt_disable() with the vmap_area_lock spin_lock instead. Calling spin_lock() with preempt disabled is illegal for -rt. Furthermore, enabling preemption inside the spin_lock() doesn't really make sense. Fixes: 82dd23e84be3 ("mm/vmalloc.c: preload a CPU with one object for split purpose") Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@xxxxxxx> --- mm/vmalloc.c | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 08c134aa7ff3..0d1175673583 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -1091,11 +1091,11 @@ static struct vmap_area *alloc_vmap_area(unsigned long size, * Even if it fails we do not really care about that. Just proceed * as it is. "overflow" path will refill the cache we allocate from. */ - preempt_disable(); + spin_lock(&vmap_area_lock); if (!__this_cpu_read(ne_fit_preload_node)) { - preempt_enable(); + spin_unlock(&vmap_area_lock); pva = kmem_cache_alloc_node(vmap_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL, node); - preempt_disable(); + spin_lock(&vmap_area_lock); if (__this_cpu_cmpxchg(ne_fit_preload_node, NULL, pva)) { if (pva) @@ -1103,9 +1103,6 @@ static struct vmap_area *alloc_vmap_area(unsigned long size, } } - spin_lock(&vmap_area_lock); - preempt_enable(); - /* * If an allocation fails, the "vend" address is * returned. Therefore trigger the overflow path. -- 2.16.4