Re: [PATCH 1/1] rcu/tree: Drop the lock before entering to page allocator

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On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 09:32:50PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2020-07-15 21:02:43 [+0200], Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> > 
> > <snip>
> >     spin_lock();
> >     __get_free_page(GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
> >     spin_unlock();
> > <snip>
> > 
> > Also, please note we do it for regular kernel.
> 
> ach right okay then.
> 
> > >
> > > What happened to the part where I asked for a spinlock_t?
> > > 
> > What do you mean?
> 
> Please drop that raw_spinlock_t for the kfree_rcu() based locking and
> use just a plain spinlock_t for the locking. Then you can keep the same
> code flow for RT and !RT without any special cases and everything.
> 
Ahhh... That i see :)

I guess it is up to Paul. I wrote my thoughts. I have only one concern
that i explained in my previous mails.

Thank you, Sebastian, for your comments!

--
Vlad Rezki




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