#include #include "linux/preempt.h" /* * In userspace, pthreads are preemptible and can migrate CPUs at any time. * * In the kernel, preempt_disable() logic essentially guarantees that a marked * critical section owns its CPU for the relevant block. This is necessary for * various code paths, critically including the percpu system as it allows for * non-atomic reads and writes to CPU-local data structures. * * The high performance userspace equivalent would be to use thread local * storage to replace percpu data, but that would be complicated. It should be * correct to instead guarantee mutual exclusion for the critical sections. */ static pthread_mutex_t preempt_lock = PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP; void preempt_disable(void) { pthread_mutex_lock(&preempt_lock); } void preempt_enable(void) { pthread_mutex_unlock(&preempt_lock); }