Re: Should we be using CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL in the Fedora kernel?

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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I get the feeling that some of the bugs we are seeing is because we 
> > have enabled CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL. I remember looking at the code when 
> > it came out and thinking it was too scary to enable, so I never did 
> > in my own vanilla kernels.
> 
> yes, we should keep it enabled - it's the default upstream and we 
> havent had PREEMPT_BKL related bugs for a really long time.
> 
> in fact i had more !PREEMPT_BKL bugs than PREEMPT_BKL bugs. (BKL 
> spinlock recursion for example)

well, PREEMPT_BKL is not the default - my points remain nevertheless.

	Ingo


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