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seqlock consists of a sequence counter and a spinlock_t which is used to serialize the writers. spinlock_t is substituted by a "sleeping" spinlock on PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels which breaks the usage in the timekeeping code as the writers are executed in hard interrupt and therefore non-preemptible context even on PREEMPT_RT. The spinlock in seqlock cannot be unconditionally replaced by a raw_spinlock_t as many seqlock users have nesting spinlock sections or other code which is not suitable to run in truly atomic context on RT. Instead of providing a raw_seqlock API for a single use case, open code the seqlock for the jiffies use case and implement it with a raw_spinlock_t and a sequence counter. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200321113242.120587764@linutronix.de
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.