Re: [PATCH] gpio: pch: use raw_spinlock_t for the register lock

Junjie Cao <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:18:14 +0800
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.linux-rt-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-gpio,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Linus,

Thanks for the review!

> Really? Why to stable? Is this a regression of something that
> used to work before? Using RT is fringe IMO.

No -- it is indeed not a regression: the lock has been a plain
spinlock_t since IRQ support landed in 2011, so it never worked on
PREEMPT_RT rather than regressing. I Cc'd stable because current LTS
kernels with PREEMPT_RT hit this sleeping-in-atomic BUG today, like
the two fixes I referenced (286533cb14a3, 90f0109019e6, both Cc'd
stable); Bartosz has since applied it with the tag kept, so I'm happy
to defer to whatever you and he prefer.

Many thanks,
Junjie