mempool: clarify behavior of mempool_alloc_preallocated()
authorThomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:17:23 +0000 (14:17 +0200)
committerVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:30:40 +0000 (12:30 +0100)
commit48233291461b0539d798d00aaacccf1b3b163102
tree5012c4f3daec84c13e15eb47d3bc6fffdc120a6d
parent07723a41eee9525a90d027f7ca49d33fcd47e775
mempool: clarify behavior of mempool_alloc_preallocated()

The documentation of that function promises to never sleep.  However on
PREEMPT_RT a spinlock_t might in fact sleep.

Reword the documentation so users can predict its behavior better.

mempool could also replace spinlock_t with raw_spinlock_t which doesn't
sleep even on PREEMPT_RT but that would take away the improved
preemptibility of sleeping locks.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251014-mempool-doc-v1-1-bc9ebf169700@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
mm/mempool.c