Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Feedback on preemptible kernel patch | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 09 Sep 2001 00:40:02 -0400 |
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On Sat, 2001-09-08 at 13:33, Arjan Filius wrote: > I tried 2.4.10-pre4 with patch-rml-2.4.10-pre4-preempt-kernel-1. > But it seems to hit highmem (see below) (i do have 1.5GB ram) > 2.4.10-pre4 plain runs just fine.
going through this thread and now looking at the highmem code, it is clear highmem is not going to be preempt safe.
until Nigel or I (or someone?) can go through it all and add appropriate locks, its a bomb waiting to blow.
thank you for the feedback...stay tuned.
-- Robert M. Love rml at ufl.edu rml at tech9.net
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