[PATCH 05/05] Linux Kernel Markers, non optimised architectures

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Mathieu Desnoyers (mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca) wrote:
> > 
> > OK, well one problem is that it can cause a resched event to be lost, so
> > you might say it has more side-effects without checking resched.
> > 
[...]
> If we are sure that we expect calls to preempt_schedule() from each of these
> contexts, then it's ok to put preempt_enable(). It is important to note that a
> marker would then act as a source of scheduler events in code paths where
> disabling interrupts is expected to disable the scheduler.
> 

Sorry for self-reply, but the above mentioned issue is dealt by the
irqs_disabled() check at the beginning of preempt_schedule().

Mathieu


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