Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:29:12 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [v2] Remaining BKL users, what to do |
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 09:40:47PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Dienstag, 19. Oktober 2010, 21:37:35 schrieb Greg KH: > > > So no need to clean it up for multiprocessor support. > > > > > > http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/29067602.pdf > > > http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/29069403.pdf > > > > Great, we can just drop all calls to lock_kernel() and the like in the > > driver and be done with it, right? > > No, > > you still need to switch off preemption.
Hm, how would you do that from within a driver?
thanks,
greg k-h
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