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SubjectRe: use of preempt_count instead of in_atomic() at leds-gpio.c
I wrote:
>>> and eth1394 to deal with temporary lack of of tlabels. Alas I just
>>> recently received a report that eth1394's workaround is unsuccessful
>>> on non-preemptible uniprocessor kernels.
> (I haven't started working on a fix, or opened a bugzilla
> ticket for it yet. The reporter currently switched his kernel to
> PREEMPT which is not affected.)

now logged as http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10306

> The failure in the workaround is *not* about the in_atomic() being the
> wrong question asked in hpsb_get_tlabel() --- no, ieee1394's in_atomic()
> abuse works just fine even on UP PREEMPT_NONE. Instead, the failure is
> about kthreads not being scheduled in the way that I thought they would.
--
Stefan Richter
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