From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:06:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:05:59 -0500 Received: from zero.tech9.net ([209.61.188.187]:54290 "EHLO zero.tech9.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:05:45 -0500 Subject: [CFT] updated linux kernel preemption patch From: Robert Love To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.99.1+cvs.2001.11.11.08.57 (Preview Release) Date: 12 Nov 2001 19:05:25 -0500 Message-Id: <1005609946.815.2.camel@phantasy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Updated preempt-kernel patches for 2.4.12, 2.4.13, 2.4.14, 2.4.13-ac7 and 2.4.15-pre4 (whew) are available at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/preempt-kernel There are patches for older kernels, too, but they are not in sync with this release. Major change is I merged ARM support. Thankfully the non-atomic change seems to not of generated _any_ problems. Good stuff. Note 2.4.13-ac8 is incompatible with preemption due to the %cr2 task coloring change. Since 2.4.15-pre2 looks to be fairly well merged with Linus, I would recommend using that. Full ChangeLog: 20011112 - make preempt_enable conditional unlikely - merge ARM support 20011102 - (ac tree only) back out tty race fix as it was merged with proper Robert Love