Re: [patch 08/13] sched: Clenaup PREEMPT_COUNT leftovers

From: Valentin Schneider
Date: Wed Sep 16 2020 - 14:35:20 EST



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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx>

Small nit below;

Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx>

> ---
> 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);