Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932236AbVKFENs (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Nov 2005 23:13:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932268AbVKFENs (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Nov 2005 23:13:48 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:52627 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932236AbVKFENr (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Nov 2005 23:13:47 -0500 Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 23:13:19 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: Ashok Raj , Petr Vandrovec , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: powernow-k8 schedules in atomic since sunday :-( Message-ID: <20051106041319.GD4046@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Zwane Mwaikambo , Ashok Raj , Petr Vandrovec , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <436A34C5.2060108@vc.cvut.cz> <20051103124916.A29900@unix-os.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1300 Lines: 29 On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 05:13:07PM -0800, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Ashok Raj wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > > Hello Ashok, > > > your change '[PATCH] create and destroy cpufreq sysfs entries based on cpu > > > notifiers' causes problems with powernow-k8 driver. powernow-k8 uses > > > set_cpus_allowed() (it even calls schedule() explicitly for no reason), and when > > > you've changed code from lock_cpu_hotplug() to preempt_disable() > > > set_cpus_allowed() now complains that schedule() is not allowed while preemption > > > is disabled... > > Hmm i submitted a patch > (http://groups.google.ca/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/ec079d77dc1f6e80/edf10a39eede6246?tvc=1&q=Remove+p$ > to remove those superfluous schedules, but perhaps it hasn't hit Linus' > tree yet via Davej. I sent Linus a pull request last week, but I did it at the same time osdl's mailserver had issues aparently. I resent another request earlier this afternoon. Dave - 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/