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PREEMPT_RT forbids certain operations like memory allocations (even with GFP_ATOMIC) from atomic contexts. This is required because even with GFP_ATOMIC the memory allocator calls into code pathes which acquire locks with long held lock sections. To ensure the deterministic behaviour these locks are regular spinlocks, which are converted to 'sleepable' spinlocks on RT. The only true atomic contexts on an RT kernel are the low level hardware handling, scheduling, low level interrupt handling, NMIs etc. None of these contexts should ever do memory allocations. As regular device interrupt handlers and soft interrupts are forced into thread context, the existing code which does spin_lock*(); alloc(GPF_ATOMIC); spin_unlock*(); just works. In theory the BPF locks could be converted to regular spinlocks as well, but the bucket locks and percpu_freelist locks can be taken from arbitrary contexts (perf, kprobes, tracepoints) which are required to be atomic contexts even on RT. These mechanisms require preallocated maps, so there is no need to invoke memory allocations within the lock held sections. BPF maps which need dynamic allocation are only used from (forced) thread context on RT and can therefore use regular spinlocks which in turn allows to invoke memory allocations from the lock held section. To achieve this make the hash bucket lock a union of a raw and a regular spinlock and initialize and lock/unlock either the raw spinlock for preallocated maps or the regular variant for maps which require memory allocations. On a non RT kernel this distinction is neither possible nor required. spinlock maps to raw_spinlock and the extra code and conditional is optimized out by the compiler. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200224145644.509685912@linutronix.de |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.