Re: [PATCH v2 7/9] sched: define TIF_ALLOW_RESCHED

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Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 9:57 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
>
> So we have four architectures which refuse to enable preemption points,
> i.e. the only model they allow is NONE and they rely on cond_resched()
> for breaking large computations.

Looks like there is a fifth one hidden: although openrisc does not
select ARCH_NO_PREEMPT, it does not call preempt_schedule_irq() or
select GENERIC_ENTRY?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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