Merge branch 'linus' into timers/core

Pick up the latest fixes and refresh the branch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h
index 8729723..c8b0519 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, __preempt_count);
 
 /*
+ * We use the PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED bit as an inverted NEED_RESCHED such
+ * that a decrement hitting 0 means we can and should reschedule.
+ */
+#define PREEMPT_ENABLED	(0 + PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED)
+
+/*
  * We mask the PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED bit so as not to confuse all current users
  * that think a non-zero value indicates we cannot preempt.
  */
@@ -74,6 +80,11 @@ static __always_inline void __preempt_count_sub(int val)
 	__this_cpu_add_4(__preempt_count, -val);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Because we keep PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED set when we do _not_ need to reschedule
+ * a decrement which hits zero means we have no preempt_count and should
+ * reschedule.
+ */
 static __always_inline bool __preempt_count_dec_and_test(void)
 {
 	GEN_UNARY_RMWcc("decl", __preempt_count, __percpu_arg(0), "e");