Re: [PATCH] solved APM bug with -rc5
Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Thu, 1 Aug 2002 22:58:42 +0200
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:52:16PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > diff -urN linux-2.4.19-rc5/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c linux-2.4.19-rc5-fix/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c
> > --- linux-2.4.19-rc5/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c Thu Aug 1 22:07:39 2002
> > +++ linux-2.4.19-rc5-fix/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c Thu Aug 1 22:26:56 2002
>
> Hm. I bet you didn't try this with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, right? IIRC, the
> wonderful world of preemption means that you can get rescheduled on
> another CPU without warning, unless you take a lock or explicitely
> disable preemption.
It's a 2.4 patch. Leave preemption problems to those insane
enough to run 2.4+preempt.
Dave
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