Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:39:35 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Real-Time Preemption and UML? |
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* Esben Nielsen <simlo@phys.au.dk> wrote:
> Well, I keep trying a little bit more. In the mean while you can get > some of the stuff I needed to change to at least get it to compile: > > One of the problems was use of direct architecture specific semaphores > (which doesn't work under PREEMPT_REALTIME) and in places where a > quick (maybe too quick) look at the code told me that completions > ought to be used. Therefore I changed two semaphores to completions > which compiled fine. I have tried the change on 2.6.11-rc2, and it > seemed to work, but I have not tested it heavily.
Jeff, any objections against adding this change to UML at some point? It's at most a cleanup for now (PREEMPT_RT not being an upstream feature), but it makes life easier if 'more exotic' semaphore details are not being relied on (even if that reliance is 100% correct currently).
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