Re: [PATCH] arm64/cpufeature: Convert hook_lock to raw_spin_lock_t in cpu_enable_ssbs()

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Tue Jun 04 2019 - 09:53:02 EST


On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:30:58PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> cpu_enable_ssbs() is called via stop_machine() as part of the cpu_enable
> callback. A spin lock is used to ensure the hook is registered before
> the rest of the callback is executed.
>
> On -RT spin_lock() may sleep. However, all the callees in stop_machine()
> are expected to not sleep. Therefore a raw_spin_lock() is required here.
>
> Given this is already done under stop_machine() and the work done under
> the lock is quite small, the latency should not increase too much.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>

Queued for 5.3. Thanks.

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Catalin