With CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, we need to disable preemption while benchmarking
RAID5 xor checksumming to ensure we're actually measuring what we think
we're measuring.

Signed-off-by: Jim Kukunas <james.t.kuku...@linux.intel.com>
---
 crypto/xor.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crypto/xor.c b/crypto/xor.c
index 8788443..84daa11 100644
--- a/crypto/xor.c
+++ b/crypto/xor.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <linux/gfp.h>
 #include <linux/raid/xor.h>
 #include <linux/jiffies.h>
+#include <linux/preempt.h>
 #include <asm/xor.h>
 
 /* The xor routines to use.  */
@@ -69,6 +70,8 @@ do_xor_speed(struct xor_block_template *tmpl, void *b1, void 
*b2)
        tmpl->next = template_list;
        template_list = tmpl;
 
+       preempt_disable();
+
        /*
         * Count the number of XORs done during a whole jiffy, and use
         * this to calculate the speed of checksumming.  We use a 2-page
@@ -91,6 +94,8 @@ do_xor_speed(struct xor_block_template *tmpl, void *b1, void 
*b2)
                        max = count;
        }
 
+       preempt_enable();
+
        speed = max * (HZ * BENCH_SIZE / 1024);
        tmpl->speed = speed;
 
-- 
1.7.8.5

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