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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:42:32 +0530
From: "Jaswinder Singh" <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
To: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [2.6.23-rt3] NMI watchdog trace of deadlock
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Hello Ingo,

On 10/27/07, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> it's not atomic interrupt context but irq thread context - and -rt
> remaps kmap_atomic() to kmap() internally.
>
> the problem seems to be what Mike's patch works around: fiddling with
> irq flags in the ntfs code. That fiddling seems quite unnecessary at
> first sight.
>

Is this a nice idea to go inside device drivers and filesystem and
make changes in kernel source code to enable RT.

RT related change should be in header files, so that we don't need to
make changes for drivers or filesystem source files.

And when user will disable RT then these patches will again make problems.

We need to find some better alternative.

Thank you,

Jaswinder Singh.