Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:52:28 -0800 | From | george anzinger <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable |
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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 High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/ Real time sched: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtsched/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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