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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:16:43 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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Subject: Re: Sleeping function called from illegal context...
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:51:30PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 19:30, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > The system still seems to be running ok, but I think I'll turn off
> > CONFIG_PREEMPT just to be sure.
> 
> Note this has nothing to do with kernel preemption.  IDE explicitly
> sleeps while purposely holding a lock.
> 
> It is just we do not have the ability to measure atomicity w/o
> preemption enabled - e.g. the debugging only works when it is enabled.

Yes, you are correct.  Sorry for stating that.  It's shaking out lots of
potential proplems :)

greg k-h
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