Re: [PATCH 1/1] sched: preempt: Move dynamic keys into kernel/sched

[Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>]

+Cristope Leroy.

On 6/10/25 13:23, Shrikanth Hegde wrote:
> Dynamic preemption can be static key or static call based.
> Static key is used to check kernel preemption depending on
> the current preemption model. i.e enable for lazy, full.
> 
> Code is spread currently across entry/common.c, arm64 and latest being
> powerpc. There is little arch specific to it. For example, arm64,
> powerpc does the same thing. It is better to move it into kernel/sched
> since preemption is more closely associated with scheduler.
> 
> Plus, Any new arch that wants dynamic preemption enabled need to have
> only HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_KEY.
> 
> This is more of code movement. No functional change.
> 
> Suggested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>   arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h   |  1 -
>   arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c   |  8 --------
>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/preempt.h | 16 ----------------
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c    |  4 ----
>   include/linux/entry-common.h       |  1 -
>   include/linux/sched.h              |  8 ++++++++
>   kernel/entry/common.c              |  1 -
>   kernel/sched/core.c                |  4 ++++
>   8 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>   delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/preempt.h

Hi. Catalin, Maddy,

Does respective arch changes seem ok?