linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/8] core, x86: Preparatory steps for RT

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Date:   Fri, 26 Jul 2019 21:30:36 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/8] core, x86: Preparatory steps for RT

On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 23:19:36 +0200
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:

> CONFIG_PREEMPTION is selected by CONFIG_PREEMPT and by
> CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT. Both PREEMPT and PREEMPT_RT require the same
> functionality which today depends on CONFIG_PREEMPT.
> 
> The following series adjusts the core and x86 code to use
> CONFIG_PREEMPTION where appropriate and extends the x86 dumpstack
> implementation to display PREEMPT_RT instead of PREEMPT on a RT
> enabled kernel.
>

Hmm, I'm looking at v5.3-rc1 and I don't see a CONFIG_PREEMPTION
defined. And the first patch doesn't define it. Did I miss a patch
series that adds it?

-- Steve