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SubjectRe: [patch V2 0/7] fs: Substitute bit-spinlocks for PREEMPT_RT and debugging
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 09:54:03AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > I know. But the problem here is that normally PG_locked is used together
> > with wait_on_page_bit_*, but this one instances uses the bit spinlock
> > helpers. This is the equivalent of calling spin_lock on a struct mutex
> > rather than having a mutex_lock_spin helper for this case.
>
> Yes, I know :(

But this means we should exclude slub from the bit_spin_lock removal.
It really should use it's own version of it anyhow insted of pretending
that the page lock is a bit spinlock.

>
> > Does SLUB work on -rt at all?
>
> It's the only allocator we support with a few tweaks :)

What do you do about this particular piece of code there?

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