Re: [PATCH -rt] mm: protect activate_mm() bypreempt_[disable|enable]_rt()

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue May 15 2012 - 21:56:49 EST


On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 09:38 +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 05:36:19PM -0400, Josh Cartwright wrote:
> > Frank Rowand posted a very similar fix in December of last year that
> > we've been carrying to fix the same issue:
> >
> > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1229806
> >
> > It looks like there was some deliberation as to whether or not it should
> > be pulled into stable-rt. Perhaps its time to revisit this discussion?
>
> Yeah, thanks for pointing it out, I didn't know there is discussion about
> it.
>

I believe we can go with Yong's patch. I don't think the #ifdef is
necessary. Just do the preempt_disable_rt().

-- Steve


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