Re: [patch 4/4] increase traffic on linux-kernel

[Andrew Morton]

Greg KH wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:09:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Infrastructure to detect sleep-inside-spinlock bugs.  Really only
> > useful if compiled with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y.  It prints out a whiny
> > message and a stack backtrace if someone calls a function which might
> > sleep from within an atomic region.
> 
> Why not make this it's own config option, dependent on CONFIG_PREEMPT?
> 

With CONFIG_PREEMPT=n, it'll detect might-sleep-inside-interrupt bugs.

Some value there I guess.