Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc2-mm4-S7

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Oct 04 2004 - 05:20:41 EST



* Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here is an almost identical one (it's even exactly 507 usecs!). This
> and the one I sent previously were apparently caused by switching from
> X to a text console and back.

ah, it's the VGA console:

> Sep 2 16:13:49 krustophenia kernel: [_mmx_memcpy+314/384] _mmx_memcpy+0x13a/0x180
> Sep 2 16:13:49 krustophenia kernel: [vgacon_save_screen+120/128] vgacon_save_screen+0x78/0x80
> Sep 2 16:13:49 krustophenia kernel: [redraw_screen+411/560] redraw_screen+0x19b/0x230

now i'm wondering why that's running with preemption disabled - i
thought we fixed that.

Ingo
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