Re: [PATCH v4 12/17] s390/preempt: Enable HAS_SEPARATE_PREEMPT_RESCHED_BITS

From: Shrikanth Hegde

Date: Tue Aug 04 2026 - 16:27:40 EST


+maddy, christophe,

On 8/4/26 9:44 PM, Boqun Feng wrote:
From: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Convert s390's preempt_count to 64 bit, and change the preempt
primitives accordingly.


+ union {
+ struct {
+ __u32 need_resched; /* 0x03a8 */
+ __u32 count; /* 0x03ac */
+ } preempt;
+ __u64 preempt_count; /* 0x03a8 */
+ };


This is interesting. So arm64, s390 will have similar implementation
w.r.t to preempt_count.

I guess PoC that i was trying for ppc64 is worth pursuing even more,
since ppc64 is one missing major arch which still uses old method
of querying tif_need_resched.
With similar change ppc64 can set HAS_SEPARATE_PREEMPT_RESCHED_BITS too.