Re: powernow-k8 schedules in atomic since sunday :-(

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On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 05:13:07PM -0800, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
 > On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Ashok Raj wrote:
 > 
 > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
 > > > Hello Ashok,
 > > >    your change '[PATCH] create and destroy cpufreq sysfs entries based on cpu 
 > > > notifiers' causes problems with powernow-k8 driver.  powernow-k8 uses 
 > > > set_cpus_allowed() (it even calls schedule() explicitly for no reason), and when 
 > > > you've changed code from lock_cpu_hotplug() to preempt_disable() 
 > > > set_cpus_allowed() now complains that schedule() is not allowed while preemption 
 > > > is disabled...
 > 
 > Hmm i submitted a patch 
 > (http://groups.google.ca/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/ec079d77dc1f6e80/edf10a39eede6246?tvc=1&q=Remove+p$ 
 > to remove those superfluous schedules, but perhaps it hasn't hit Linus' 
 > tree yet via Davej.

I sent Linus a pull request last week, but I did it at the same
time osdl's mailserver had issues aparently.

I resent another request earlier this afternoon.

		Dave

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