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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2023 16:51:07 +0200
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: Arches that don't support PREEMPT
Hi Willy,
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 3:01 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> 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 ...
>
> I suspect none of these architecture maintainers have any idea there's a
> problem. Look at commit 87a4c375995e and the discussion in
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180724175646.3621-1-hch@lst.de/
>
> Let's cc those maintainers so they can remove this and fix whatever
> breaks.
Looks like your scare tactics are working ;-)
[PATCH/RFC] m68k: Add full preempt support
https://lore.kernel.org/all/7858a184cda66e0991fd295c711dfed7e4d1248c.1696603287.git.geert@linux-m68k.org
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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-- Linus Torvalds
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