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* [PATCH 0/1 v2] Protect vmstats on PREEMPT_RT
@ 2021-08-05 16:00 Mel Gorman
  2021-08-05 16:00 ` [PATCH 1/1] mm/vmstat: Protect per cpu variables with preempt disable on RT Mel Gorman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Mel Gorman @ 2021-08-05 16:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Vlastimil Babka, Hugh Dickins,
	Linux-MM, Linux-RT-Users, LKML, Mel Gorman

Changelog since v1
o Remove preempt_[en|dis]able_rt helper

When adding local_lock support to mm/page_alloc.c and reducing the overhead
of vmstats in general, I wondered how vmstats could be safe on PREEMPT_RT
as it partially relies on interrupts being disabled for the stats that
must be accurate for correctness. As it turns out, the preempt-rt tree
already encountered the same problem.

This series protects just the accurate counters. As Thomas expressed
concern that the preempt_enable_rt() helper could be abused, this
version open-codes the preemption with a comment explaining why it
is necessary.

This is specific to PREEMPT_RT which cannot be enabled on mainline yet
and should have no impact on !PREEMPT_RT kernels.

This patch replaces the following mmotm patches

o preempt-provide-preempt__nort-variants.patch
o mm-vmstat-protect-per-cpu-variables-with-preempt-disable-on-rt.patch

-- 
2.31.1


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2021-08-05 23:22   ` Andrew Morton
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