[PATCH 1/1] arm64: enable PREEMPT_LAZY
From: Valentin Schneider
Date: Wed Mar 05 2025 - 05:53:43 EST
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
For an architecture to enable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_RESCHED_LAZY, two things are
required:
1) Adding a TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY flag definition
2) Checking for TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY in the appropriate locations
2) is handled in a generic manner by CONFIG_GENERIC_ENTRY, which isn't
(yet) implemented for arm64. However, outside of core scheduler code,
TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY only needs to be checked on a kernel exit, meaning:
o return/entry to userspace.
o return/entry to guest.
The return/entry to a guest is all handled by xfer_to_guest_mode_handle_work()
which already does the right thing, so it can be left as-is.
arm64 doesn't use common entry's exit_to_user_mode_prepare(), so update its
return to user path to check for TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY and call into
schedule() accordingly.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rt-users/20241216190451.1c61977c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/xhsmh4j0fl0p3.mognet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
[testdrive, _TIF_WORK_MASK fixlet and changelog.]
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
[Another round of testing; changelog faff]
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h | 16 +++++++++-------
arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index fcdd0ed3eca89..7789d7fb6f191 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ config ARM64
select ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS
select ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
select ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG if ARM64_HAFT
+ select ARCH_HAS_PREEMPT_LAZY
select ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP
select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
select ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
index 1114c1c3300a1..4443ef2789758 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -59,11 +59,12 @@ void arch_setup_new_exec(void);
#define TIF_SIGPENDING 0 /* signal pending */
#define TIF_NEED_RESCHED 1 /* rescheduling necessary */
-#define TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME 2 /* callback before returning to user */
-#define TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE 3 /* CPU's FP state is not current's */
-#define TIF_UPROBE 4 /* uprobe breakpoint or singlestep */
-#define TIF_MTE_ASYNC_FAULT 5 /* MTE Asynchronous Tag Check Fault */
-#define TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL 6 /* signal notifications exist */
+#define TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY 2 /* Lazy rescheduling needed */
+#define TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME 3 /* callback before returning to user */
+#define TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE 4 /* CPU's FP state is not current's */
+#define TIF_UPROBE 5 /* uprobe breakpoint or singlestep */
+#define TIF_MTE_ASYNC_FAULT 6 /* MTE Asynchronous Tag Check Fault */
+#define TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL 7 /* signal notifications exist */
#define TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE 8 /* syscall trace active */
#define TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT 9 /* syscall auditing */
#define TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT 10 /* syscall tracepoint for ftrace */
@@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ void arch_setup_new_exec(void);
#define _TIF_SIGPENDING (1 << TIF_SIGPENDING)
#define _TIF_NEED_RESCHED (1 << TIF_NEED_RESCHED)
+#define _TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY (1 << TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY)
#define _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME (1 << TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME)
#define _TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE (1 << TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE)
#define _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE (1 << TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE)
@@ -100,10 +102,10 @@ void arch_setup_new_exec(void);
#define _TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL (1 << TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL)
#define _TIF_TSC_SIGSEGV (1 << TIF_TSC_SIGSEGV)
-#define _TIF_WORK_MASK (_TIF_NEED_RESCHED | _TIF_SIGPENDING | \
+#define _TIF_WORK_MASK (_TIF_NEED_RESCHED | _TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY | \
_TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME | _TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE | \
_TIF_UPROBE | _TIF_MTE_ASYNC_FAULT | \
- _TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL)
+ _TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL | _TIF_SIGPENDING)
#define _TIF_SYSCALL_WORK (_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE | _TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT | \
_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT | _TIF_SECCOMP | \
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c
index b260ddc4d3e9a..7993fab0cab4c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static void do_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long thread_flags)
do {
local_irq_enable();
- if (thread_flags & _TIF_NEED_RESCHED)
+ if (thread_flags & (_TIF_NEED_RESCHED | _TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY))
schedule();
if (thread_flags & _TIF_UPROBE)
--
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