Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:34:08 +0200 | Subject | Re: Arches that don't support PREEMPT |
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Hi Willy,
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 3:01 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.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/
These links don't really point out there is a grave problem?
> Let's cc those maintainers so they can remove this and fix whatever > breaks.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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