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Subject: Re: [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A9
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 17:31, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> i've done a minor comment update in softirq.c, plus i've written a
> cli-sti-removal.txt guide to help driver writers do the transition:

Nice document.

One more doc correction while we are at it...

	Robert Love

diff -urN linux-2.5.27/Documentation/preempt-locking.txt linux/Documentation/preempt-locking.txt
--- linux-2.5.27/Documentation/preempt-locking.txt	Sat Jul 20 12:11:06 2002
+++ linux/Documentation/preempt-locking.txt	Sun Jul 21 17:59:13 2002
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@
 preempt_enable()		decrement the preempt counter
 preempt_disable()		increment the preempt counter
 preempt_enable_no_resched()	decrement, but do not immediately preempt
-preempt_get_count()		return the preempt counter
+preempt_check_resched()		if needed, reschedule
+preempt_count()			return the preempt counter
 
 The functions are nestable.  In other words, you can call preempt_disable
 n-times in a code path, and preemption will not be reenabled until the n-th

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