Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: ifdef out VM_BUG_ON check on PREEMPT_RT_FULL

[Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 05:07:42PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> This all or nothing protection is a real show stopper for RT, so we
> try to identify what needs protection against what and then we
> annotate those sections with proper scope markers, which turn into RT
> friendly constructs at compile time.
> 
> The name of the marker in question (event_lock) might not be the best
> choice, but that does not invalidate the general usefulness of fine
> granular protection scope markers. We certainly need to revisit the
> names which we slapped on the particular bits and pieces, and discuss
> with the subsystem experts the correctness of the scope markers, but
> that's a completely different story.

Actually, I think there was a misunderstanding.  Sebastian's patch did
not include any definition of event_lock, so it looked like this is a
global lock defined by -rt that is simply explicit about being global,
rather than a lock that specifically protects memcg event statistics.

Yeah that doesn't make a lot of sense, thinking more about it.  Sorry.

So localizing these locks for -rt is reasonable, I can see that.  That
being said, does it make sense to have such locking in mainline code?
Is there a concrete plan for process-context interrupt handlers in
mainline?  Because it'd be annoying to maintain fine-grained locking
schemes with explicit lock names in a source tree where it never
amounts to anything more than anonymous cli/sti or preempt toggling.

Maybe I still don't understand what you were proposing for mainline
and what you were proposing as the -rt solution.