On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:28:00 -0300 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So what happens is that infrastructure in the rt patch eventually lands > upstream, then this difference ceases to exist. > > Steven, are there plans for local locks to go upstream? > Yes, but they don't make sense unless we get PREEMPT_RT (sleeping spinlocks) upstream. Otherwise, they will just be another name for preempt_disable(). That said, there is some rational for getting them upsteam before sleeping spinlocks, and that is to annotate what a preempt_disable() is trying to protect. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
