linux-kernel - Re: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context on 3.10.10-rt7

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Message-ID: <20130925100730.0b63628e@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:07:30 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner@...bingen.mpg.de>
Cc:	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	"Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@...g.org>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	intel-gfx <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context on
 3.10.10-rt7

Sorry for the late reply, I was at Linux Plumbers, and had a bunch of
stuff to catch up on when I returned.

On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:07:36 +0200
Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner@...bingen.mpg.de> wrote:

> Steven, would it then be acceptable to convert that "faster" lock into a 
> raw_spinlock_t or is this unacceptable? If so, the preempt_disable() 
> could stay, right?

If a spinlock is tight (not held for more than 2us on todays
processors), and has little contention, than I would be fine with
converting it to raw. And if that's the only lock held you could do the
preempt_disable() call.

In fact, if you want, you can leave the preempt_disable() out of
mainline, and send a patch to us that uses "preempt_disable_rt()" and
add a comment to it. In the -rt patch, preempt_disable_rt() is a nop
when PREEMPT_RT is not set, and is preempt_disable() when it is.

-- Steve
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