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[S] Four short stories about
preempt_count()
[Kernel] Posted Sep 18,2020 14.49 UTC (Fri) by corbet
The discussion started out as
straightforwardpatch set
from Thomas Gleixner making a minor change to how
preemption counting is handled: The resulting
discussion quickly spread out to cover
number of
issues relevant to core-kernel development in
surprisingly few messages; each of those topics merits
quick look, starting with how the preemption counter
itself works. Sometimes a simple count turns out to not
be as simple as it seems:
FulLStory (comments: L)
Bottomley: Creating a home IPv6 network
[Kernel
Posted Sep 18,2020 14.48 UTC (Fri) by corbet
James Bottomley has put together adetailed recounting