On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Removed this as well, also seemed to work. Please note, however, that > > this is just running kernbench. But this did seem to get rid of some > > of the warnings as well. ;-) Now only have the xics_startup() warning. > > > > > Overall, looks fine ! > > > > I bet that there are more gotchas lurking in there somewhere, but in > > the meantime here is the updated patch. > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > > Well, I suppose the patch could go in, maybe with some ifdef's around > the bits in _switch_to, there's little point in doing that on non-rt > kernels.
As Nick Piggin already stated, and I'll even state it for the RT kernel, we do not allow preemption in switch_to. So it is safe to remove those "preempt_disable" bits from the patch. -- Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
