linux-kernel - Re: Arches that don't support PREEMPT

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Message-ID: <20230919134218.GA39281@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:42:18 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@...cle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, x86@...nel.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, luto@...nel.org, bp@...en8.de,
        dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com,
        juri.lelli@...hat.com, vincent.guittot@...aro.org, mgorman@...e.de,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, jon.grimm@....com, bharata@....com,
        raghavendra.kt@....com, boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com,
        konrad.wilk@...cle.com, jgross@...e.com, andrew.cooper3@...rix.com,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        linux-um@...ts.infradead.org, Brian Cain <bcain@...cinc.com>,
        linux-hexagon@...r.kernel.org,
        Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@...aro.org>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
        Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>, linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Arches that don't support PREEMPT

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 03:37:24PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-09-19 at 14:00 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 02:30:59PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner 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
> > 
> > Sounds like three-and-a-half architectures which could be queued up for
> > removal right behind ia64 ...
> 
> The agreement to kill off ia64 wasn't an invitation to kill off other stuff
> that people are still working on! Can we please not do this?

If you're working on one of them, then surely it's a simple matter of
working on adding CONFIG_PREEMPT support :-)