BTW, Please Cc LKML when sending patches. It is the kernel you are
modifying, not userspace.
On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 00:42:22 +0100
Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch removes the recursive calls to migrate_disable/enable in
> local_bh_disable/enable
>
> the softirq-local-lock.patch introduces local_bh_disable/enable wich
> decrements/increments the current->softirq_nestcnt and disable/enables
> migration as well. as softirq_nestcnt (include/linux/sched.h conditioned
> on CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_BASE) already is tracking the nesting level of the
> recursive calls to local_bh_disable/enable (all in kernel/softirq.c) - no
> need to do it twice.
>
> migrate_disable/enable thus can be conditionsed on softirq_nestcnt making
> a transition from 0-1 to disable migration and 1-0 to re-enable it.
>
> patch on top of 3.12.1-rt4
>
> No change of functional behavior, this does noticably reduce the observed
> nesting level of migrate_disable/enable
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/softirq.c | 14 ++++++++------
> 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
> index 9a7268f..16ebbd9 100644
> --- a/kernel/softirq.c
> +++ b/kernel/softirq.c
> @@ -569,8 +569,8 @@ static void do_current_softirqs(int need_rcu_bh_qs)
>
> void local_bh_disable(void)
> {
> - migrate_disable();
> - current->softirq_nestcnt++;
> + if (++current->softirq_nestcnt == 1)
> + migrate_disable();
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(local_bh_disable);
>
> @@ -584,8 +584,8 @@ void local_bh_enable(void)
> do_current_softirqs(1);
> local_irq_enable();
>
> - current->softirq_nestcnt--;
> - migrate_enable();
> + if (--current->softirq_nestcnt == 0)
> + migrate_enable();
I wonder if we should add a:
BUG_ON(current->softirq_nestcnt < 0);
As for the patch, I haven't found anything wrong with it.
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
-- Steve
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(local_bh_enable);
>
> @@ -597,8 +597,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(local_bh_enable_ip);
>
> void _local_bh_enable(void)
> {
> - current->softirq_nestcnt--;
> - migrate_enable();
> + if (WARN_ON(current->softirq_nestcnt == 0))
> + return;
> + if (--current->softirq_nestcnt == 0)
> + migrate_enable();
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(_local_bh_enable);
>
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