On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 08:46:17PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:32:57AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > The lack of spin_lock_init causes badness in the preempt configuration.
>
> Please don't - I have a patch in the wings which fixes this properly.
> Unfortunately, its behind a ton of other patches, and I don't want
> to try to find all these fixes in each driver.
Actually, sorry, it's already merged -
http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=976ecd12b8144d066a23fe97c6fbfc1ac8470af7
I don't personally run preempt so I don't know what badness you're
seeing. Can you check whether your kernel has this patch applied,
and if so provide a bug report so the problem can be analysed please?
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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