From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934600AbbI2JpK (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2015 05:45:10 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:60749 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934326AbbI2JnQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2015 05:43:16 -0400 Message-Id: <20150929093519.706413197@infradead.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.61-1 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:28:26 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: mingo@kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, rostedt@goodmis.org, Peter Zijlstra Subject: [RFC][PATCH 01/11] sched: Simplify INIT_PREEMPT_COUNT References: <20150929092825.540553633@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline; filename=peterz-kill-preempt_active-1.patch Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org As per commit d86ee4809d03 ("sched: optimize cond_resched()") we need PREEMPT_ACTIVE to avoid cond_resched() from working before the scheduler is setup. However, keeping preemption disabled should do the same thing already, making the PREEMPT_ACTIVE part entirely redundant. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) --- include/linux/sched.h | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -608,17 +608,14 @@ struct task_cputime_atomic { /* * Disable preemption until the scheduler is running. * Reset by start_kernel()->sched_init()->init_idle(). - * - * We include PREEMPT_ACTIVE to avoid cond_resched() from working - * before the scheduler is active -- see should_resched(). */ -#define INIT_PREEMPT_COUNT (PREEMPT_DISABLED + PREEMPT_ACTIVE) +#define INIT_PREEMPT_COUNT PREEMPT_DISABLED /** * struct thread_group_cputimer - thread group interval timer counts * @cputime_atomic: atomic thread group interval timers. * @running: non-zero when there are timers running and - * @cputime receives updates. + * @cputime receives updates. * * This structure contains the version of task_cputime, above, that is * used for thread group CPU timer calculations.