Re: [PATCH v2] pstore: Revert pmsg_lock back to a normal mutex

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue,  7 Mar 2023 08:31:06 +0800
Hillf Danton <hdanton@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 10:28:44 -0500 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 09:03:23 +0800 Hillf Danton <hdanton@xxxxxxxx> wrote:  
> > >
> > > PS what sense made by spinning on owner until need_resched() with preempt
> > > disabled in the non-rt context?  
> > 
> > Not sure what the question you have here is? If need_resched() is set, we
> > want to schedule out.  
> 
> Given the critical section under mutex could be preempted, what is hard to
> understand is the wakeup of a ten-minute sleeper could not preempt a nice-10
> mutex spinner for instance.

But it can. Most wakeups are done by interrupts or softirqs. Both of which
will happen even if a task is running with preemption disabled.

-- Steve