Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751470AbVJRI6V (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:58:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751472AbVJRI6V (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:58:21 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:35983 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751470AbVJRI6V (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:58:21 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] disable PREEMPT_BKL per default From: Arjan van de Ven To: Olaf Hering Cc: mingo@elte.hu, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051018084706.GA14666@suse.de> References: <20051016154108.25735ee3.akpm@osdl.org> <20051018074511.GA13182@suse.de> <1129622010.2779.6.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051018084706.GA14666@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:58:00 +0200 Message-Id: <1129625881.2779.12.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 2.9 (++) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (2.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 2.8 RCVD_IN_DSBL RBL: Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org [] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1038 Lines: 27 On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 10:47 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 09:45 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > Do not enable this per default during make oldconfig. > > > 'default $foo' should not be abused like that. > > > > afaik that was done to increase testing. > > This thing shouldn't be a config option at all in a final release imo; > > the config option as I understand it is there to be able to disable it > > during the testing phase in -mm to help diagnose otherwise unexplained > > issues. > > CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL is already in Linus tree. hmm maybe time to remove it; by now it ought to be mature enough > Its disabled in our configs. any particular reason for that? Eg are there any known or suspected issues with this? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/