Greg KH wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:09:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Infrastructure to detect sleep-inside-spinlock bugs. Really only
> > useful if compiled with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y. It prints out a whiny
> > message and a stack backtrace if someone calls a function which might
> > sleep from within an atomic region.
>
> Why not make this it's own config option, dependent on CONFIG_PREEMPT?
>
With CONFIG_PREEMPT=n, it'll detect might-sleep-inside-interrupt bugs.
Some value there I guess.
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