Thread (18 messages) 18 messages, 8 authors, 2018-10-09

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kthread: convert worker lock to raw spinlock

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: 2018-10-05 16:46:36
Also in: lkml

On 2018-09-28 21:03:51 [+0000], Julia Cartwright wrote:
In order to enable the queuing of kthread work items from hardirq
context even when PREEMPT_RT_FULL is enabled, convert the worker
spin_lock to a raw_spin_lock.

This is only acceptable to do because the work performed under the lock
is well-bounded and minimal.

Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reported-and-tested-by: Steffen Trumtrar <redacted>
Reported-by: Tim Sander <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Julia Cartwright <redacted>
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

Sebastian
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