* Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> 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