Messages in this thread |  | | From | Robert Lowery <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:33:18 +1100 |
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>I question this because it is too risky to apply. There is no way any >distribution or production system could ever consider applying the >preempt kernel and ship it in its next kernel update 2.4. You never know >if a driver will deadlock because it is doing a test and set bit busy >loop by hand instead of using spin_lock and you cannot audit all the >device drivers out there.
Quick question from a kernel newbie.
Could this audit be partially automated by the Stanford Checker? or would there be too many false positives from other similar looping code?
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