[patch 0/2] x86/fpu: Make fpu_lock() RT compliant

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Oct 27 2020 - 06:16:33 EST


FPU serialization uses

preempt_disable(); local_bh_disable();

which is silly because local_bh_disable() implicitly disables
preemption. So this can be reduced to local_bh_disable().

But this does not work on RT kernels because local_bh_disable() only
serializes bottom half related processing via a local lock, but does not
disable preemption.

On RT kernels preempt_disable() is the right choice because on RT bottom
half processing is always in thread context, so preempt_disable()
implicitly protects against bottom half processing there.

Thanks,

tglx