Re: [PATCH] fs/buffer: Make BH_Uptodate_Lock bit_spin_lock a regular spinlock_t

[Sebastian Siewior]

On 2019-08-20 20:01:14 [+0200], Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2019, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 07:08:18PM +0200, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
> > > Bit spinlocks are problematic if PREEMPT_RT is enabled, because they
> > > disable preemption, which is undesired for latency reasons and breaks when
> > > regular spinlocks are taken within the bit_spinlock locked region because
> > > regular spinlocks are converted to 'sleeping spinlocks' on RT. So RT
> > > replaces the bit spinlocks with regular spinlocks to avoid this problem.
> > > Bit spinlocks are also not covered by lock debugging, e.g. lockdep.
> > > 
> > > Substitute the BH_Uptodate_Lock bit spinlock with a regular spinlock.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > [bigeasy: remove the wrapper and use always spinlock_t]
> > 
> > Uhh ... always grow the buffer_head, even for non-PREEMPT_RT?  Why?
> 
> Christoph requested that:
> 
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190802075612.GA20962@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

What do we do about this one?

> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx

Sebastian