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SubjectRe: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable
Robert Lowery wrote:
>
> >I question this because it is too risky to apply. There is no way any
> >distribution or production system could ever consider applying the
> >preempt kernel and ship it in its next kernel update 2.4. You never know
> >if a driver will deadlock because it is doing a test and set bit busy
> >loop by hand instead of using spin_lock and you cannot audit all the
> >device drivers out there.
>
> Quick question from a kernel newbie.
>
> Could this audit be partially automated by the Stanford Checker? or would
> there
> be too many false positives from other similar looping code?
>
> -Robert
Sounds like a REALLY good thing (tm) to me. How do we get them
interested?
--
George george@mvista.com
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