Re: Real-Time Preemption and GFP_ATOMIC

[Ingo Molnar]

* Kevin Hilman <kevin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> To produce the following trace, I wrote a simple moudle which just has
> this as its init_module routine:
> 
>         local_irq_disable();
>         p = __get_free_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
>         local_irq_enable();

in the PREEMPT_RT kernel almost everything might sleep, so the general
rule is to not call anything 'complex' from an IRQs-off section. 
Depending on which is easier in your code, if you want to fix it up for
PREEMPT_RT then either move the GFP_ATOMIC allocation from under the
irqs-off section, or introduce a spinlock for the irqs-off section and
use spin_lock_irqsave(). (that is almost always needed anyway if you
really needed the irqs-off section.)

	Ingo
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