preempt/dynamic: Introduce preemption model accessors
authorValentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 18:52:01 +0000 (18:52 +0000)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tue, 5 Apr 2022 08:24:42 +0000 (10:24 +0200)
commitcfe43f478b79ba45573ca22d52d0d8823be068fa
tree57e4b23a2770f3889fa8f58ff7296d1bc360b88a
parent3123109284176b1532874591f7c81f3837bbdc17
preempt/dynamic: Introduce preemption model accessors

CONFIG_PREEMPT{_NONE, _VOLUNTARY} designate either:
o The build-time preemption model when !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
o The default boot-time preemption model when PREEMPT_DYNAMIC

IOW, using those on PREEMPT_DYNAMIC kernels is meaningless - the actual
model could have been set to something else by the "preempt=foo" cmdline
parameter. Same problem applies to CONFIG_PREEMPTION.

Introduce a set of helpers to determine the actual preemption model used by
the live kernel.

Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211112185203.280040-3-valentin.schneider@arm.com
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/sched/core.c