Re: [PATCH][RT] xfs: Disable preemption when grabbing all icsb counter locks

[Austin Schuh]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:07:21 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The irony, this is distinctly non deterministic code you're putting
>> under a RT specific preempt_disable ;-)
>
> I know :-(
>
> Unfortunately, a RT behaving fix would be much more invasive and would
> probably require the help of the xfs folks. For now, this just prevents
> a live lock that can happen and halt the system, where it becomes
> deterministic catastrophe.
>
> -- Steve

Would it work to instead create a lock to replace the
preempt_enable_rt/preempt_disable_rt pair in XFS?
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