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SubjectRe: Preempt note in the logs
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On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 14:01, Thunder from the hill wrote:

> Do you think it's useful to temporarily put a lock counter into struct
> task (TEMPORARILY, Linus, temporarily!) and check that as well? Maybe that
> will point us something.

There already is, it is called preempt_count.

> Or we should extend that whole crap a bit so we could see exactly what
> caused the preemption count to rise. I don't know if we can do that, but
> we can try doing that.

A lock trace would be helpful here. But since I know normal kernel code
is not suspect, all these users need to do is find which oddball module
or patch they are using... e.g. watch it be nvidia.

Robert Love

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