linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RT] mm/memcontrol: Move misplaced local_unlock

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Date:   Tue, 4 Feb 2020 09:35:19 +0000
From:   Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org,
        Daniel Wagner <wagi@...om.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RT] mm/memcontrol: Move misplaced
 local_unlock_irqrestore()

On Mon, 03 Feb, at 07:17:46PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2020-01-26 21:19:45 [+0000], Matt Fleming wrote:
> > There's no need to leave interrupts disabled when calling css_put_many().
> 
> For RT the interrupts are never actually disabled and for !RT they are
> disabled with or without the change.
> The comment about the disable function mentions just the counters and
> css_put_many()'s callback just invokes a worker so it is probably save
> to move the function as suggested.
> 
> May I ask how on earth you managed to open that file on a Sunday
> evening?

We're carrying it in some of our older SUSE RT kernels and I'd really
like to get it upstream or sent to /dev/null ;)