Re: [PATCH] solved APM bug with -rc5

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 22:17, Willy TARREAU wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:54:08PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > Richard Gooch writes:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Apologies. I forgot that CONFIG_PREEMPT is a 2.5.x feature, and
> > doesn't exist on 2.4 (thankfully).
> 
> Never mind, your comment is interesting anyway because it shows that
> preemption patch for 2.4 needs to adapt to such updates.

Pre-emption for 2.4 needs to do a lot of work on raid and even athlon
compiles to fix the FPU stuff, let alone corner cases