From ba1f14fbe70965ae0fb1655a5275a62723f65b77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:26:41 +0100 Subject: sched: Remove PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED from generic code While hunting a preemption issue with Alexander, Ben noticed that the currently generic PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED stuff is horribly broken for load-store architectures. We currently rely on the IPI to fold TIF_NEED_RESCHED into PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED, but when this IPI lands while we already have a load for the preempt-count but before the store, the store will erase the PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED change. The current preempt-count only works on load-store archs because interrupts are assumed to be completely balanced wrt their preempt_count fiddling; the previous preempt_count load will match the preempt_count state after the interrupt and therefore nothing gets lost. This patch removes the PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED usage from generic code and pushes it into x86 arch code; the generic code goes back to relying on TIF_NEED_RESCHED. Boot tested on x86_64 and compile tested on ppc64. Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reported-and-Tested-by: Alexander Graf Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131128132641.GP10022@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/sched.h | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 768b037dfacb..96d674ba3876 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -440,8 +440,6 @@ struct task_cputime { .sum_exec_runtime = 0, \ } -#define PREEMPT_ENABLED (PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED) - #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT #define PREEMPT_DISABLED (1 + PREEMPT_ENABLED) #else -- cgit v1.2.3