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DateSat, 5 Nov 2005 23:13:19 -0500
FromDave Jones <>
SubjectRe: powernow-k8 schedules in atomic since sunday :-(
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 05:13:07PM -0800, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Ashok Raj wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> > > Hello Ashok,
> > > your change '[PATCH] create and destroy cpufreq sysfs entries based on cpu
> > > notifiers' causes problems with powernow-k8 driver. powernow-k8 uses
> > > set_cpus_allowed() (it even calls schedule() explicitly for no reason), and when
> > > you've changed code from lock_cpu_hotplug() to preempt_disable()
> > > set_cpus_allowed() now complains that schedule() is not allowed while preemption
> > > is disabled...
>
> Hmm i submitted a patch
> (http://groups.google.ca/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/ec079d77dc1f6e80/edf10a39eede6246?tvc=1&q=Remove+p$
> to remove those superfluous schedules, but perhaps it hasn't hit Linus'
> tree yet via Davej.

I sent Linus a pull request last week, but I did it at the same
time osdl's mailserver had issues aparently.

I resent another request earlier this afternoon.

Dave

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