Re: [PATCH] mm/kasan: make quarantine_lock a raw_spinlock_t

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 04:35:29PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:50:58 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The whole raw_spinlock_t is for RT, no other reason.
> 
> Oh.  I never realised that.
> 
> Is this documented anywhere?  Do there exist guidelines which tell
> non-rt developers and reviewers when it should be used?

I'm afraid not; I'll put it on the todo list ... I've also been working
on some lockdep validation for the lock order stuff.