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| author | Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> | 2020-02-24 14:01:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> | 2020-02-25 00:20:10 +0000 |
| commit | 66150d0dde030c5ee68ccd93e4c54a73c47ebebd (patch) | |
| tree | 0d39c932913bd7bd18238e6cdd60393292c0a0c7 /scripts/bpf_helpers_doc.py | |
| parent | bpf: Prepare hashtab locking for PREEMPT_RT (diff) | |
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bpf, lpm: Make locking RT friendly
The LPM trie map cannot be used in contexts like perf, kprobes and tracing
as this map type dynamically allocates memory.
The memory allocation happens with a raw spinlock held which is a truly
spinning lock on a PREEMPT RT enabled kernel which disables preemption and
interrupts.
As RT does not allow memory allocation from such a section for various
reasons, convert the raw spinlock to a regular spinlock.
On a RT enabled kernel these locks are substituted by 'sleeping' spinlocks
which provide the proper protection but keep the code preemptible.
On a non-RT kernel regular spinlocks map to raw spinlocks, i.e. this does
not cause any functional change.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]
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