Re: [PATCH] solved APM bug with -rc5

From: Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 15:54:08 EST

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Richard Gooch writes:
> Hm. I bet you didn't try this with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, right? IIRC, the
> wonderful world of preemption means that you can get rescheduled on
> another CPU without warning, unless you take a lock or explicitely
> disable preemption.

Apologies. I forgot that CONFIG_PREEMPT is a 2.5.x feature, and
doesn't exist on 2.4 (thankfully).

Regards,

Richard....
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