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Commit 583248e662 ("iommu/iova: Disable preemption around use of
this_cpu_ptr()") disables preemption while accessing a per-CPU variable.
This does keep lockdep quiet. However I don't see the point why it is
bad if we get migrated after its access to another CPU.
__iova_rcache_insert() and __iova_rcache_get() immediately locks the
variable after obtaining it - before accessing its members.
_If_ we get migrated away after retrieving the address of cpu_rcache
before taking the lock then the *other* task on the same CPU will
retrieve the same address of cpu_rcache and will spin on the lock.
alloc_iova_fast() disables preemption while invoking
free_cpu_cached_iovas() on each CPU. The function itself uses
per_cpu_ptr() which does not trigger a warning (like this_cpu_ptr()
does). It _could_ make sense to use get_online_cpus() instead but the we
have a hotplug notifier for CPU down (and none for up) so we are good.
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
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