Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched: INIT_PREEMPT_COUNT

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Sat Jul 11 2009 - 06:16:19 EST


On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 02:57:56PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Pull the initial preempt_count value into a single
> definition site.
>
> Maintainers for: alpha, ia64 and m68k, please have a look,
> your arch code is funny.

Goodness. I remember sending patches to fix the initial value of
preempt_count on these architectures about four-five years ago.
Guess they were ignored. It just shows that we need to keep pulling
stuff out of arch/.

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