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send_msg() disables preemption to avoid out-of-order messages. As the code inside the preempt disabled section acquires regular spinlocks, which are converted to 'sleeping' spinlocks on a PREEMPT_RT kernel and eventually calls into a memory allocator, this conflicts with the RT semantics. Convert it to a local_lock which allows RT kernels to substitute them with a real per CPU lock. On non RT kernels this maps to preempt_disable() as before. No functional change. [bigeasy: Patch description] Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200527201119.1692513-6-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Linux kernel
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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.