Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:16:43 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Sleeping function called from illegal context... |
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:51:30PM -0400, Robert Love wrote: > On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 19:30, Greg KH wrote: > > > The system still seems to be running ok, but I think I'll turn off > > CONFIG_PREEMPT just to be sure. > > Note this has nothing to do with kernel preemption. IDE explicitly > sleeps while purposely holding a lock. > > It is just we do not have the ability to measure atomicity w/o > preemption enabled - e.g. the debugging only works when it is enabled.
Yes, you are correct. Sorry for stating that. It's shaking out lots of potential proplems :)
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