Re: [PATCH 1/3] kernel/sched: introduce vcpu preempted check interface

[Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 04:00:43PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 01:41:28PM -0400, Pan Xinhui wrote:
> > +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> > @@ -3293,6 +3293,15 @@ static inline void set_task_cpu(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int cpu)
> >  
> >  #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
> >  
> > +#ifdef arch_vcpu_is_preempted
> > +static inline bool vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu)
> > +{
> > +	return arch_vcpu_is_preempted(cpu);
> > +}
> > +#else
> > +#define vcpu_is_preempted(cpu)	false
> > +#endif
> 
> #ifndef vcpu_is_preempted
> #define vcpu_is_preempted(cpu)		(false)
> #endif
> 
> Is so much simpler...
> 
> Also, please Cc the virt list so that other interested parties can
> comment, and maybe also the s390 folks.

The s390 implementation would be to simply use cpu_is_preempted() from
arch/s390/lib/spinlock.c.
It's nice that there will be a common code function for this!