Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:54:41 -0500 (EST) | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01 |
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> The short term fix is probably to put back the preempt_disables, the long > term is to get rid of these stupid bit_spin_lock busy loops. >
Doing a quick search on the kernel, it looks like only kjournald uses the bit_spin_locks. I'll start converting them to spinlocks. The use seems to be more of a hack, since it is using bits in the state field for locking, and these bits aren't used for anything else.
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