linux-kernel - Re: [SPLAT 1/3] arm_pmu: Sleeping spinlocks down armpmu_alloc

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Date:   Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:16:19 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Subject: Re: [SPLAT 1/3] arm_pmu: Sleeping spinlocks down armpmu_alloc_atomic()

On Tue, Aug 10 2021 at 15:54, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2021-08-10 14:41:25 [+0100], Valentin Schneider wrote:
>> [    4.172817] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:35
>
> Would it work to allocate the memory upfront and invoke the HP callback
> via smp_function_call()?

Huch? If the memory is allocated during the prepare stage then the
actual hotplug callback can just use it. So what's the SMP function call
for?

Thanks,

        tglx