Hi Thomas,
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 9:57 PM Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> 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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