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During a context switch the scheduler invokes wq_worker_sleeping() with disabled preemption. Disabling preemption is needed because it protects access to `worker->sleeping'. As an optimisation it avoids invoking schedule() within the schedule path as part of possible wake up (thus preempt_enable_no_resched() afterwards). The io-wq has been added to the mix in the same section with disabled preemption. This breaks on PREEMPT_RT because io_wq_worker_sleeping() acquires a spinlock_t. Also within the schedule() the spinlock_t must be acquired after tsk_is_pi_blocked() otherwise it will block on the sleeping lock again while scheduling out. While playing with `io_uring-bench' I didn't notice a significant latency spike after converting io_wqe::lock to a raw_spinlock_t. The latency was more or less the same. In order to keep the spinlock_t it would have to be moved after the tsk_is_pi_blocked() check which would introduce a branch instruction into the hot path. The lock is used to maintain the `work_list' and wakes one task up at most. Should io_wqe_cancel_pending_work() cause latency spikes, while searching for a specific item, then it would need to drop the lock during iterations. revert_creds() is also invoked under the lock. According to debug cred::non_rcu is 0. Otherwise it should be moved outside of the locked section because put_cred_rcu()->free_uid() acquires a sleeping lock. Convert io_wqe::lock to a raw_spinlock_t.c Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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.