[patch 08/13] sched: Clenaup PREEMPT_COUNT leftovers

Valentin Schneider valentin.schneider at arm.com
Wed Sep 16 06:56:23 EDT 2020


On 14/09/20 21:42, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT is now unconditionally enabled and will be
> removed. Cleanup the leftovers before doing so.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli at redhat.com>
> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot at linaro.org>
> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann at arm.com>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall at google.com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman at suse.de>
> Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot at redhat.com>

Small nit below;

Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider at arm.com>

> ---
>  kernel/sched/core.c |    6 +-----
>  lib/Kconfig.debug   |    1 -
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -3706,8 +3706,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void schedule_tail(
>        * finish_task_switch() for details.
>        *
>        * finish_task_switch() will drop rq->lock() and lower preempt_count
> -	 * and the preempt_enable() will end up enabling preemption (on
> -	 * PREEMPT_COUNT kernels).

I suppose this wanted to be s/PREEMPT_COUNT/PREEMPT/ in the first place,
which ought to be still relevant.

> +	 * and the preempt_enable() will end up enabling preemption.
>        */
>
>       rq = finish_task_switch(prev);



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