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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, rml@tech9.net, george@mvista.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: in_interrupt race
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:31:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020423093151.A17302@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15553.17071.88897.914713@argo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1019502174.939.50.camel@phantasy> <3CC48321.5855B08A@mvista.com> <1019512494.1465.5.camel@phantasy> <15556.38775.439624.762586@argo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20020423132524.2056739f.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 01:25:24PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Yes: the old CPU happens to be processing an interrupt now.
> The neat solution is to follow Linus' original instinct and make
> PREEMPT an option only for UP: I only like preempt because it brings
> UP into line with SMP, effectively enlarging the SMP userbase to reasonable
> size.

> -bool 'Preemptible kernel' CONFIG_PREEMPT
> +dep_bool 'Preemptible kernel' CONFIG_PREEMPT $CONFIG_SMP
> -bool 'Preemptible Kernel' CONFIG_PREEMPT
> +dep_bool 'Preemptible Kernel' CONFIG_PREEMPT $CONFIG_SMP

Do you really mean that CONFIG_PREEMPT is only available if CONFIG_SMP is
'y' or undefined?

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-23  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-20 10:27 in_interrupt race Paul Mackerras
2002-04-22 19:02 ` Robert Love
2002-04-22 21:39   ` george anzinger
2002-04-22 21:54     ` Robert Love
2002-04-22 23:06       ` Paul Mackerras
2002-04-22 23:15         ` Robert Love
2002-04-23  3:25         ` Rusty Russell
2002-04-23  8:31           ` Russell King [this message]
2002-04-24  4:43             ` Rusty Russell
2002-04-22 23:22     ` Paul Mackerras

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