linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] kernel/sched: introduce vcpu preempted check interface

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Date:	Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:47:07 +0800
From:	xinhui <xinhui.pan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, mingo@...hat.com, mpe@...erman.id.au,
	paulus@...ba.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org, Waiman.Long@....com,
	boqun.feng@...il.com, will.deacon@....com, dave@...olabs.net,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] kernel/sched: introduce vcpu preempted check interface



On 2016年06月28日 15:00, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 04:00:43PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 01:41:28PM -0400, Pan Xinhui wrote:
>>> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
>>> @@ -3293,6 +3293,15 @@ static inline void set_task_cpu(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int cpu)
>>>
>>>   #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
>>>
>>> +#ifdef arch_vcpu_is_preempted
>>> +static inline bool vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu)
>>> +{
>>> +	return arch_vcpu_is_preempted(cpu);
>>> +}
>>> +#else
>>> +#define vcpu_is_preempted(cpu)	false
>>> +#endif
>>
>> #ifndef vcpu_is_preempted
>> #define vcpu_is_preempted(cpu)		(false)
>> #endif
>>
>> Is so much simpler...
>>
>> Also, please Cc the virt list so that other interested parties can
>> comment, and maybe also the s390 folks.
>
> The s390 implementation would be to simply use cpu_is_preempted() from
> arch/s390/lib/spinlock.c.
that's great.

> It's nice that there will be a common code function for this!
>