[PATCH 0/5] sched: dynamic: Simplify PREEMPT_DYNAMIC

From: Mark Rutland

Date: Fri Jul 03 2026 - 09:34:12 EST


All architectures which currently suppoort PREEMPT_DYNAMIC select
ARCH_HAS_PREEMPT_LAZY. On architectures which select
ARCH_HAS_PREEMPT_LAZY, it has not been possible to select the NONE and
VOLUNTARY preemption models since v7.0 due to commit:

7dadeaa6e851 ("sched: Further restrict the preemption modes")

Hence in practice PREEMPT_DYNAMIC no longer supports the NONE or
VOLUNTARY preemption models.

This series makes the de-facto situation official by making
PREEMPT_DYNAMIC depend on ARCH_HAS_PREEMPT_LAZY, and removing all the
redundant code.

For x86_64 v7.2-rc1 defconfig built with GCC 10.2.1, this makes the
bzImage 28K smaller, mostly due to removing NOPs that will never be
patched to {cond,might}_resched() at runtime:

[mark@lakrids:~/src/linux]% ls -al vmlinux-*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mark mark 53844952 Jul 3 14:09 vmlinux-after
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mark mark 53842856 Jul 3 14:09 vmlinux-before
[mark@lakrids:~/src/linux]% ls -al bzImage-*
-rw-r--r-- 1 mark mark 14771200 Jul 3 14:09 bzImage-after
-rw-r--r-- 1 mark mark 14799872 Jul 3 14:08 bzImage-before

Mark.

Mark Rutland (5):
sched: dynamic: Make PREEMPT_DYNAMIC depend on ARCH_HAS_PREEMPT_LAZY
sched: dynamic: Simplify {cond,might}_resched()
sched: dynamic: Simplify preempt_schedule{,_notrace}()
sched: dynamic: Simplify irqentry_exit_cond_resched()
sched: dynamic: Remove HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_{CALL,KEY}

arch/Kconfig | 38 -------
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 -
arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h | 10 --
arch/loongarch/Kconfig | 1 -
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 -
arch/powerpc/include/asm/preempt.h | 7 --
arch/riscv/Kconfig | 1 -
arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 -
arch/s390/include/asm/preempt.h | 11 --
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 -
arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h | 28 -----
include/asm-generic/preempt.h | 10 --
include/linux/irq-entry-common.h | 17 +--
include/linux/kernel.h | 20 ----
include/linux/sched.h | 31 +----
kernel/Kconfig.preempt | 9 +-
kernel/entry/common.c | 17 +--
kernel/sched/core.c | 176 +----------------------------
18 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 367 deletions(-)

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