> What is required for preempt beyond "SMP safe" code? I thought the whole
> idea was to make the preemptions transparent to other code by utilizing
> the SMP critical regions?
SMP safe code
Actual source code when recompiling modules
Reviewing things like driver code use of disable_irq by hand
Reviewing driver code for situations where it requires a small timing delay
and a large one is unacceptable
Checking anywhere you use the cpu id that you don't do somthing where it
might change under you (eg per cpu variables)
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