Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] arm64: entry: centralize premeption decision

[Catalin Marinas]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 03:35:34PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> For historical reasons, the decision of whether or not to preempt is
> spread across arm64_preempt_schedule_irq() and __el1_irq(), and it would
> be clearer if this were all in one place.
> 
> Also, arm64_preempt_schedule_irq() calls lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled(),
> but this is redundant, as we have a subsequent identical assertion in
> __exit_to_kernel_mode(), and preempt_schedule_irq() will
> BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled()) anyway.
> 
> This patch removes the redundant assertion and centralizes the
> preemption decision making within arm64_preempt_schedule_irq().
> 
> Other than the slight change to assertion behaviour, there should be no
> functional change as a result of this patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>

I acked this patch in v2, has anything changed? Well, here it is again:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>

BTW, you have a typo in the subject.