Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 5 Nov 2005 23:13:19 -0500 | | From | Dave Jones <> | | Subject | Re: powernow-k8 schedules in atomic since sunday :-( |
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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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