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SubjectRe: What exactly are the issues with 2.6.0-test10 preempt?
Mr. Torvalds,

--- Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Bradley Chapman wrote:
> >
> > What sort of information would you like me to provide, sir? The bug you're
> > discussing here isn't affecting me; CONFIG_PREEMPT has been solid on
> 2.6.0-test10.
> > This is on a Gateway 600S laptop with a P4-M 2Ghz processor and an i845
> Brookdale
> > chipset.
>
> Basically, there's something strange going on, which _seems_ to be memory
> corruption, and seems to correlate reasonable well (but not 100%) with
> CONFIG_PREEMPT.

Ah, I see. I thought there was a definite issue with a certain subsystem that
just hadn't been fixed yet when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y.

>
> It's actually unlikely to be preemption itself that is broken: it's much
> more likely that some driver or other subsystem is broken, and preempt is
> just better at triggering it by making some race conditions much easier to
> see due to bigger windows for them to happen.
>
> The problem is finding enough of a pattern to the reports to make sense of
> what seems to be the common thread. A lot of people use preemption without
> any trouble.

Indeed. Do the same subsystems usually show the memory corruption issue with
preempt active, or does it just pop up all over the place, unpredictably?

>
> Linus

Brad


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