On 2026/2/4 18:39, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04 2026 at 09:28, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
>> On 2026/2/3 22:16, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 03 2026 at 21:37, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
>>>> Currently, x86, Riscv, Loongarch use the Generic Entry which makes
>>>> maintainers' work easier and codes more elegant. arm64 has already
>>>> successfully switched to the Generic IRQ Entry in commit
>>>> b3cf07851b6c ("arm64: entry: Switch to generic IRQ entry"), it is
>>>> time to completely convert arm64 to Generic Entry.
>>>>
>>>> The goal is to bring arm64 in line with other architectures that already
>>>> use the generic entry infrastructure, reducing duplicated code and
>>>> making it easier to share future changes in entry/exit paths, such as
>>>> "Syscall User Dispatch".
>>>>
>>>> This patch set is rebased on "sched/core". And the performance
>>>
>>> Why are you using sched/core, which contains a lot of unrelated
>>> changes. core/entry is the one which has the prerequisites and nothing
>>> else....
>>
>> By the way，it looks like core/entry and arm64 for-next/entry have
>> diverged: the first three patches of this series are already in arm64
>> for-next/entry but missing from core/entry.
>> Perhaps the two branches should be reconciled so that both contain the
>> same baseline.
>
> The first three patches of this series are ARM specific and have nothing
> to do with the queued core/entry changes in tip. They are independent of
> each other and these three ARM64 changes have no business in my tree.
>
> If the ARM64 folks want to apply the rest of your series then they have
> to pull the core/entry branch into their for-next/core branch first so
> the whole thing builds.
>
> But given that the merge window opens on sunday, this is probably moot
> anyway and the rest of this series can go on top of rc1 in the ARM64
> tree w/o any further complications.
Thanks for the clear explanation, many thanks as well for the extensive
review work and the prompt replies on the generic entry changes.
Regards,
Jinjie
>
> Thanks,
>
> tglx
>
