From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] 2.4: updated preemptive kernel patch Date: 30 Mar 2002 13:16:02 -0500 Cc: kpreempt-tech@lists.sourceforge.net This is the preemptive kernel patch, supported by MontaVista. Updated patches for 2.4.18, 2.4.19-pre5, and 2.4.19-pre4-ac3 are now available at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/preempt-kernel as well as older patches for older kernel revisions. The only major change aside from the sync up is some simple debug code that will catch most any preempt_count oddity without much overhead, courtesy of Andrew Morton. Basically just check the preempt_count for a non-zero value on do_exit. Nothing pending in the 2.4 codebase. I have a bunch of changes queued for preempt-stats which I will get out real soon now. For 2.5, there are a couple of indirect preempt-related optimizations and lock-fixings in store soon. Recent Change Log: 20020328 - simple but complete debug check in do_exit (Andrew Morton) 20020301: - fix the preempt_count for non-CPU0 idle (George Anzinger) threads Enjoy, Robert Love - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/