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From:   Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
To:     Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
        Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Split preemption model selection between DYNAMIC & !DYNAMIC
In-Reply-To: <87h7cks16n.mognet@arm.com>
References: <20211109151057.3489223-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com> <20211110011738.GD288354@lothringen> <beec14cee84de7a4bedd7a63c2acdf150a82bc09.camel@gmx.de> <87h7cks16n.mognet@arm.com>
Date:   Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:45:45 +0000
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On 10/11/21 11:24, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> Following Frederic's _STATIC suggestion, I got to the below. The nice thing
> is if a defconfig picks say PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY and the arch supports
> PREEMPT_DYNAMIC, then it'll pick PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY_BEHAVIOUR. The less nice
> thing is that we end up selecting PREEMPT_STATIC for PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
> kernels, naming's hard... Maybe _BUILD rather than _STATIC?
>

And now without a legacy compatibility layer crud...

---
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 2776423a587e..9c7d774ef809 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 struct completion;
 struct user;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY_BUILD
 
 extern int __cond_resched(void);
 # define might_resched() __cond_resched()
diff --git a/include/linux/vermagic.h b/include/linux/vermagic.h
index 1eaaa93c37bf..f2b71920024c 100644
--- a/include/linux/vermagic.h
+++ b/include/linux/vermagic.h
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 #else
 #define MODULE_VERMAGIC_SMP ""
 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_BUILD
 #define MODULE_VERMAGIC_PREEMPT "preempt "
 #elif defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)
 #define MODULE_VERMAGIC_PREEMPT "preempt_rt "
@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@
 #define MODULE_RANDSTRUCT_PLUGIN
 #endif
 
-#define VERMAGIC_STRING 						\
+#define VERMAGIC_STRING							\
 	UTS_RELEASE " "							\
-	MODULE_VERMAGIC_SMP MODULE_VERMAGIC_PREEMPT 			\
+	MODULE_VERMAGIC_SMP MODULE_VERMAGIC_PREEMPT			\
 	MODULE_VERMAGIC_MODULE_UNLOAD MODULE_VERMAGIC_MODVERSIONS	\
 	MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC						\
 	MODULE_RANDSTRUCT_PLUGIN
diff --git a/init/Makefile b/init/Makefile
index 2846113677ee..04eeee12c076 100644
--- a/init/Makefile
+++ b/init/Makefile
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ $(obj)/version.o: include/generated/compile.h
 quiet_cmd_compile.h = CHK     $@
       cmd_compile.h = \
 	$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/mkcompile_h $@	\
-	"$(UTS_MACHINE)" "$(CONFIG_SMP)" "$(CONFIG_PREEMPT)"	\
+	"$(UTS_MACHINE)" "$(CONFIG_SMP)" "$(CONFIG_PREEMPT_BUILD)"	\
 	"$(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)" $(CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT) "$(LD)"
 
 include/generated/compile.h: FORCE
diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
index 60f1bfc3c7b2..ce77f0265660 100644
--- a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
+++ b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
@@ -1,12 +1,23 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
 
+config PREEMPT_NONE_BUILD
+	bool
+
+config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY_BUILD
+	bool
+
+config PREEMPT_BUILD
+	bool
+	select PREEMPTION
+	select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK if !ARCH_INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
+
 choice
 	prompt "Preemption Model"
-	default PREEMPT_NONE_BEHAVIOUR
+	default PREEMPT_NONE
 
-config PREEMPT_NONE_BEHAVIOUR
+config PREEMPT_NONE
 	bool "No Forced Preemption (Server)"
-	select PREEMPT_NONE if !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
+	select PREEMPT_NONE_BUILD if !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
 	help
 	  This is the traditional Linux preemption model, geared towards
 	  throughput. It will still provide good latencies most of the
@@ -18,10 +29,10 @@ config PREEMPT_NONE_BEHAVIOUR
 	  raw processing power of the kernel, irrespective of scheduling
 	  latencies.
 
-config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY_BEHAVIOUR
+config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
 	bool "Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)"
 	depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
-	select PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY if !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
+	select PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY_BUILD if !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
 	help
 	  This option reduces the latency of the kernel by adding more
 	  "explicit preemption points" to the kernel code. These new
@@ -37,10 +48,10 @@ config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY_BEHAVIOUR
 
 	  Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop system.
 
-config PREEMPT_BEHAVIOUR
+config PREEMPT
 	bool "Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)"
 	depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
-	select PREEMPT
+	select PREEMPT_BUILD
 	help
 	  This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making
 	  all kernel code (that is not executing in a critical section)
@@ -58,7 +69,7 @@ config PREEMPT_BEHAVIOUR
 
 config PREEMPT_RT
 	bool "Fully Preemptible Kernel (Real-Time)"
-	depends on EXPERT && ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT && !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
+	depends on EXPERT && ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT
 	select PREEMPTION
 	help
 	  This option turns the kernel into a real-time kernel by replacing
@@ -75,17 +86,6 @@ config PREEMPT_RT
 
 endchoice
 
-config PREEMPT_NONE
-	bool
-
-config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
-	bool
-
-config PREEMPT
-	bool
-	select PREEMPTION
-	select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK if !ARCH_INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
-
 config PREEMPT_COUNT
        bool
 
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ config PREEMPTION
 
 config PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
 	bool "Preemption behaviour defined on boot"
-	depends on HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
-	select PREEMPT
+	depends on HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC && !PREEMPT_RT
+	select PREEMPT_BUILD
 	default y
 	help
 	  This option allows to define the preemption model on the kernel
diff --git a/kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c b/kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c
index dc55fd5a36fc..845b17cf7811 100644
--- a/kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c
+++ b/kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c
@@ -1005,13 +1005,13 @@ static const void *nthreads_gen_params(const void *prev, char *desc)
 	else
 		nthreads *= 2;
 
-	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT) || !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KCSAN_INTERRUPT_WATCHER)) {
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPTION) || !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KCSAN_INTERRUPT_WATCHER)) {
 		/*
 		 * Without any preemption, keep 2 CPUs free for other tasks, one
 		 * of which is the main test case function checking for
 		 * completion or failure.
 		 */
-		const long min_unused_cpus = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE) ? 2 : 0;
+		const long min_unused_cpus = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE_BUILD) ? 2 : 0;
 		const long min_required_cpus = 2 + min_unused_cpus;
 
 		if (num_online_cpus() < min_required_cpus) {
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 7896d30d90f7..3b3226ffbafa 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -4271,11 +4271,11 @@ print_trace_header(struct seq_file *m, struct trace_iterator *iter)
 		   entries,
 		   total,
 		   buf->cpu,
-#if defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE)
+#if defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE_BUILD)
 		   "server",
-#elif defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY)
+#elif defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY_BUILD)
 		   "desktop",
-#elif defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT)
+#elif defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_BUILD)
 		   "preempt",
 #elif defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)
 		   "preempt_rt",