Re: [patch] Voluntary Preempt additions

[Robert Love]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 10:49 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
                                                                                   
> - Modified latency tracer to trace non-preemptable mutex locking , in
> /proc/lock_trace

Why?

It is a bug to have preemption disabled when entering non-atomic
(schedulable) code, and a stack trace is dumped if that happens.

Isn't that sufficient?

	Robert Love


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