* 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