Re: [PATCH RT] arm64: fpsimd: use a local_lock() in addition to local_bh_disable()

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2018-05-22 13:10:04 [-0400], Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2018 14:40:06 +0200
> Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > +static DEFINE_LOCAL_IRQ_LOCK(fpsimd_lock);
> >  /*
> >   * Update current's FPSIMD/SVE registers from thread_struct.
> >   *
> > @@ -594,6 +595,7 @@ int sve_set_vector_length(struct task_struct *task,
> >  	 * non-SVE thread.
> >  	 */
> >  	if (task == current) {
> > +		local_lock(fpsimd_lock);
> >  		local_bh_disable();
> 
> I'm surprised that we don't have a "local_lock_bh()"?

right. Like the last time when we introduced a global lock with no
locking context? 

> -- Steve
> 
> >  
> >  		task_fpsimd_save();

Sebastian