This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sched/rt: Provide migrate_disable/enable() inlines
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
sched-rt-provide-migrate_disable-enable-inlines.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 53a038481cd85125b2fe22e622742de944967b77
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Feb 8 20:48:29 2020 +0100
sched/rt: Provide migrate_disable/enable() inlines
[ Upstream commit 66630058e56b26b3a9cf2625e250a8c592dd0207 ]
Code which solely needs to prevent migration of a task uses
preempt_disable()/enable() pairs. This is the only reliable way to do so
as setting the task affinity to a single CPU can be undone by a
setaffinity operation from a different task/process.
RT provides a seperate migrate_disable/enable() mechanism which does not
disable preemption to achieve the semantic requirements of a (almost) fully
preemptible kernel.
As it is unclear from looking at a given code path whether the intention is
to disable preemption or migration, introduce migrate_disable/enable()
inline functions which can be used to annotate code which merely needs to
disable migration. Map them to preempt_disable/enable() for now. The RT
substitution will be provided later.
Code which is annotated that way documents that it has no requirement to
protect against reentrancy of a preempting task. Either this is not
required at all or the call sites are already serialized by other means.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/878slclv1u.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Stable-dep-of: 36c75ce3bd29 ("nd_btt: Make BTT lanes preemptible")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/linux/preempt.h b/include/linux/preempt.h
index bbb68dba37cc8..bc3f1aecaa194 100644
--- a/include/linux/preempt.h
+++ b/include/linux/preempt.h
@@ -322,4 +322,34 @@ static inline void preempt_notifier_init(struct preempt_notifier *notifier,
#endif
+/**
+ * migrate_disable - Prevent migration of the current task
+ *
+ * Maps to preempt_disable() which also disables preemption. Use
+ * migrate_disable() to annotate that the intent is to prevent migration,
+ * but not necessarily preemption.
+ *
+ * Can be invoked nested like preempt_disable() and needs the corresponding
+ * number of migrate_enable() invocations.
+ */
+static __always_inline void migrate_disable(void)
+{
+ preempt_disable();
+}
+
+/**
+ * migrate_enable - Allow migration of the current task
+ *
+ * Counterpart to migrate_disable().
+ *
+ * As migrate_disable() can be invoked nested, only the outermost invocation
+ * reenables migration.
+ *
+ * Currently mapped to preempt_enable().
+ */
+static __always_inline void migrate_enable(void)
+{
+ preempt_enable();
+}
+
#endif /* __LINUX_PREEMPT_H */
