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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Greg Weeks <greg.weeks@timesys.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, "Cooper, John" <john.cooper@timesys.com>
Subject: Re: PREEMPT
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 19:55:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051006185504.GD15275@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43457266.3090208@timesys.com>

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 02:52:22PM -0400, Greg Weeks wrote:

> I'd remembered some problems ages ago, but had thought they'd been 
> fixed. John was just picking my brain about it so I thought I'd ask to 
> be sure.

The problems I recall were all related to being preempted just while
fiddling with the hardware FPU - can't happen on the fpu-less 4Kc.
Another issue fixesd recently even though more cosmetic were a bunch
of global variables.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-06 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-06 18:36 PREEMPT Greg Weeks
2005-10-06 18:46 ` PREEMPT Ralf Baechle
2005-10-06 18:52   ` PREEMPT Greg Weeks
2005-10-06 18:55     ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2005-10-06 19:05       ` PREEMPT john cooper
2005-10-06 18:45         ` PREEMPT sjhill
2005-10-07 13:55           ` PREEMPT Atsushi Nemoto

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