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From: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, luto@kernel.org, bp@alien8.de,
	dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@redhat.com,
	juri.lelli@redhat.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org,
	mgorman@suse.de, rostedt@goodmis.org, jon.grimm@amd.com,
	bharata@amd.com, raghavendra.kt@amd.com,
	boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com,
	jgross@suse.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-um@lists.infradead.
Subject: Re: Arches that don't support PREEMPT
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:21:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd664a61-4506-bab0-19c3-0011f57005b5@cambridgegreys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230919134218.GA39281@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>



On 19/09/2023 14:42, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 03:37:24PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> On Tue, 2023-09-19 at 14:00 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 02:30:59PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>>> Though it just occured to me that there are dragons lurking:
>>>>
>>>> arch/alpha/Kconfig:     select ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
>>>> arch/hexagon/Kconfig:   select ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
>>>> arch/m68k/Kconfig:      select ARCH_NO_PREEMPT if !COLDFIRE
>>>> arch/um/Kconfig:        select ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
>>>
>>> Sounds like three-and-a-half architectures which could be queued up for
>>> removal right behind ia64 ...
>>
>> The agreement to kill off ia64 wasn't an invitation to kill off other stuff
>> that people are still working on! Can we please not do this?
> 
> If you're working on one of them, then surely it's a simple matter of
> working on adding CONFIG_PREEMPT support :-)

In the case of UML adding preempt will be quite difficult. I looked at this a few years back.

At the same time it is used for kernel test and other stuff. It is not exactly abandonware on a CPU found in archaeological artifacts of past civilizations like ia64.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-19 14:21 UTC|newest]

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2023-09-19 13:00                   ` Arches that don't support PREEMPT Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-19 13:34                     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-09-19 13:37                     ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-09-19 13:42                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-19 13:48                         ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-09-19 14:16                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-19 14:24                             ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-09-19 14:32                               ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-19 15:31                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-09-20 14:38                             ` Anton Ivanov
2023-09-21 12:20                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-09-19 14:17                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-09-19 14:50                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2023-09-19 14:57                               ` Matt Turner
2023-09-19 17:09                               ` Ulrich Teichert
2023-09-19 17:25                           ` Linus Torvalds
2023-09-19 17:58                             ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-09-19 18:31                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-09-19 18:38                               ` Steven Rostedt
2023-09-19 18:52                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-09-19 19:53                                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-09-20  7:32                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2023-09-20  7:29                               ` Ingo Molnar
2023-09-20  8:26                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-09-20 10:37                             ` David Laight
2023-09-19 14:21                         ` Anton Ivanov [this message]
2023-09-19 15:17                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-09-19 15:21                             ` Anton Ivanov
2023-09-19 16:22                               ` Richard Weinberger
2023-09-19 16:41                                 ` Anton Ivanov
2023-09-19 17:33                                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-10-06 14:51                     ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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