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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/preempt.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/preempt.h | 42 |
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/preempt.h b/include/linux/preempt.h index b4381f255a5c..0df425bf9bd7 100644 --- a/include/linux/preempt.h +++ b/include/linux/preempt.h @@ -421,4 +421,46 @@ static inline void migrate_enable(void) { } #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */ +/** + * preempt_disable_nested - Disable preemption inside a normally preempt disabled section + * + * Use for code which requires preemption protection inside a critical + * section which has preemption disabled implicitly on non-PREEMPT_RT + * enabled kernels, by e.g.: + * - holding a spinlock/rwlock + * - soft interrupt context + * - regular interrupt handlers + * + * On PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels spinlock/rwlock held sections, soft + * interrupt context and regular interrupt handlers are preemptible and + * only prevent migration. preempt_disable_nested() ensures that preemption + * is disabled for cases which require CPU local serialization even on + * PREEMPT_RT. For non-PREEMPT_RT kernels this is a NOP. + * + * The use cases are code sequences which are not serialized by a + * particular lock instance, e.g.: + * - seqcount write side critical sections where the seqcount is not + * associated to a particular lock and therefore the automatic + * protection mechanism does not work. This prevents a live lock + * against a preempting high priority reader. + * - RMW per CPU variable updates like vmstat. + */ +/* Macro to avoid header recursion hell vs. lockdep */ +#define preempt_disable_nested() \ +do { \ + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)) \ + preempt_disable(); \ + else \ + lockdep_assert_preemption_disabled(); \ +} while (0) + +/** + * preempt_enable_nested - Undo the effect of preempt_disable_nested() + */ +static __always_inline void preempt_enable_nested(void) +{ + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)) + preempt_enable(); +} + #endif /* __LINUX_PREEMPT_H */ |