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Commit 66150d0d authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner Committed by Alexei Starovoitov
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bpf, lpm: Make locking RT friendly



The LPM trie map cannot be used in contexts like perf, kprobes and tracing
as this map type dynamically allocates memory.

The memory allocation happens with a raw spinlock held which is a truly
spinning lock on a PREEMPT RT enabled kernel which disables preemption and
interrupts.

As RT does not allow memory allocation from such a section for various
reasons, convert the raw spinlock to a regular spinlock.

On a RT enabled kernel these locks are substituted by 'sleeping' spinlocks
which provide the proper protection but keep the code preemptible.

On a non-RT kernel regular spinlocks map to raw spinlocks, i.e. this does
not cause any functional change.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200224145644.602129531@linutronix.de
parent 7f805d17
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