@@ -2571,15 +2571,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_rehash);
static inline unsigned start_dir_add(struct inode *dir)
{
- /*
- * The caller holds a spinlock (dentry::d_lock). On !PREEMPT_RT
- * kernels spin_lock() implicitly disables preemption, but not on
- * PREEMPT_RT. So for RT it has to be done explicitly to protect
- * the sequence count write side critical section against a reader
- * or another writer preempting, which would result in a live lock.
- */
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
- preempt_disable();
+ preempt_disable_nested();
for (;;) {
unsigned n = dir->i_dir_seq;
if (!(n & 1) && cmpxchg(&dir->i_dir_seq, n, n + 1) == n)
@@ -2592,8 +2584,7 @@ static inline void end_dir_add(struct inode *dir, unsigned int n,
wait_queue_head_t *d_wait)
{
smp_store_release(&dir->i_dir_seq, n + 2);
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
- preempt_enable();
+ preempt_enable_nested();
wake_up_all(d_wait);
}