Re: [PATCH] misc: sgi-gru: Don't disable preemption in GRU driver

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 19 Sept 2024 at 06:16, Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Disabling preemption in the GRU driver is unnecessary, and clashes with
> sleeping locks in several code paths.  Remove preempt_disable and
> preempt_enable from the GRU driver.

I've applied this directly, since it didn't come in through any of the
normal channels, and I don't see it pending anywhere in linux-next
either.

I doubt it matters much in practice, but at least it should make
smatch happier about this driver, and clearly the preemption disabling
was always wrong.

              Linus