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Any architecture that > would like to enable PREFERRED_CPU mechanism has to also enable PARAVIRT > and bring additional changes to accommodate PARAVIRT's requirements. > > As an example, s390 doesn't enable PARAVIRT config for hardware virtualized > Logical Partitions (LPAR). The steal time is accounted for the LPARs via > architecture's own steal time accounting mechanism instead of the common > steal time infrastructure PARAVIRT supplies. > For s390 to enable PREFERRED_CPU, PRAVIRT and its required stubs are > just unncessary. > > Based on the discussion between Yury Norov and Peter Zijlstra over > Yury's original patch [1]: > > Introduce a new config flag HAVE_CPUTIME_STEAL to indicate that the > architecture has steal time measurement capabilities already implemented > and to signal that PARAVIRT is not required. > Remove PARAVIRT gating from CPU_PREFERRED and add HAVE_CPUTIME_STEAL > instead. > Select HAVE_CPUTIME_STEAL for s390 and powerpc-pseries configs. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261101192203.6979-2-ynorov@nvidia.com/ > > Reviewed-by: Yury Norov > Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra > Signed-off-by: Mete Durlu Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde > --- > arch/Kconfig | 8 ++++++++ > arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig | 1 + > arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 + > drivers/virt/Kconfig | 2 +- > kernel/Kconfig.preempt | 2 +- > 5 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig > index 1163736de1f9..01b8251970f6 100644 > --- a/arch/Kconfig > +++ b/arch/Kconfig > @@ -1080,6 +1080,14 @@ config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING > config HAVE_PV_STEAL_CLOCK_GEN > bool > > +config HAVE_CPUTIME_STEAL > + bool > + default y if HAVE_PV_STEAL_CLOCK_GEN > + help > + Selected directly by config PARAVIRT through HAVE_PV_STEAL_CLOCK_GEN > + or directly by architectures that have their own CPUTIME_STEAL > + accounting. > + > config HAVE_MOVE_PUD > bool > help > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig > index 7d125e288f6e..3c49baf606d7 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig > @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ config PPC_SPLPAR > depends on PPC_PSERIES > select PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS if PPC_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS > select PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING if VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN > + select HAVE_CPUTIME_STEAL > default y > help > Enabling this option will make the kernel run more efficiently > diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig > index 7138d923d86f..39379e72ffdf 100644 > --- a/arch/s390/Kconfig > +++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig > @@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ config S390 > select HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT > select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE > select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL > + select HAVE_CPUTIME_STEAL > select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK > select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS > select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE > diff --git a/drivers/virt/Kconfig b/drivers/virt/Kconfig > index eeb84e578ddf..a3721d34a55c 100644 > --- a/drivers/virt/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/virt/Kconfig > @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ config FSL_HV_MANAGER > > config STEAL_GOVERNOR > tristate "Dynamic vCPU management based on steal time" > - depends on PARAVIRT && SMP > + depends on SMP && HAVE_CPUTIME_STEAL > select PREFERRED_CPU > default m > help > diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt > index edc067a0c422..ffd2cb2a4d69 100644 > --- a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt > +++ b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt > @@ -197,4 +197,4 @@ config SCHED_CLASS_EXT > > config PREFERRED_CPU > bool > - depends on SMP && PARAVIRT > + depends on SMP && HAVE_CPUTIME_STEAL > > --- > base-commit: 6628e7d4c6b25c8d18f1345e3a20d21829aae7e4 > change-id: 20261104-preferredcpu-b3c00594bd74 > > Best regards,