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On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 09:51, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > the counter is definitely not optimized away, see: This is because of work Dave Miller and Ingo did - irq count, softirq count, and lock count (when PREEMPT=y) are unified into preempt_count. So it is intended. The unification makes things cleaner and simpler, using one value in place of three and one interface and concept in place of many others. It also gives us a single simple thing to check for an overall notion of "atomicity", which is what makes debugging so nice. Robert Love - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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