Re: [PATCH] Don't disable preemption in exception handlers without IST

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On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

>
> Some of the exception handlers that run on an IST in a normal kernel
> still disable preemption. This causes might_sleep warning when sending signals
> for debugging in PREEMPT-RT because sending signals can take a lock.
> Since the ISTs are disabled now for those don't disable the preemption.
>
> This completes the remove IST patch I sent some time ago and fixes
> another case where using gdb caused warnings.
>
> Also it will likely improve latency a little bit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

-- Steve

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