2002-12-23 19:12:22

by Simon Michael

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Subject: Re: [PROBLEM 2.5.52] PREEMPT broken (was "bad: scheduling while atomic!" errors during boot)

>Simon Michael <[email protected]> writes:
>> Turning off CONFIG_PREEMPT fixes this problem.
>
> Change fixes to hides and you are correct. Reporting
> these error is a real good idea.

Yup, that's what I meant. Thanks to another private emailer for the idea.

Robert, I think you are the one who'll want to hear of this.

Best regards,
-Simon





2002-12-23 20:22:56

by Robert Love

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Subject: Re: [PROBLEM 2.5.52] PREEMPT broken (was "bad: scheduling while atomic!" errors during boot)

On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 14:12, Simon Michael wrote:

> Yup, that's what I meant. Thanks to another private emailer for the idea.
>
> Robert, I think you are the one who'll want to hear of this.

The problem is actually unrelated to preempt, but only with preempt can
we detect it. So, yes, disabling CONFIG_PREEMPT merely hides the debug
message.

I got your post from earlier, thanks. The relevant maintainers need to
work on it.

Robert Love