boot time scheduling hile atomic

Takeharu KATO kato.takeharu at jp.fujitsu.com
Thu Mar 17 11:46:09 EST 2005


Hi Benjamin:

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> 
> There may be other kernel bits calling syscall, it sounds saner to
> always make sure we don't reschedule when in atomic (though it's dubious
> that it's allowed to do syscalls in atomic regions, let's be safe
> there).
> 
> In fact, we are thinking about consolidating the syscall return path and
> the normal irq return path like we did on ppc64.
> 
Thkans, I make sense.
Would you send me Paul's patch?

Regards,

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Takeharu KATO
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