Re: schedule() and mipsel processor

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:57:49PM +1000, fpga dsp wrote:

> I may ask a stupid question here but I have problem of calling any functions 
> such as interruptible_sleep_on_timeout, sleep_on ... in a timer handler, the 
> kernel just crash straight away in the function schedule(). Now I go and do a 
> diff between kern/sched.c on i686 source and mipsel source. clearly , they 
> are different. So the question is from kernel programming point of view, the 
> bottom-half of interrupt handler is still considered interrupt handler? I 
> don't see any platform dependent code in the scheduler at all. So why a mips 
> scheduler is different from intel scheduler ?

Bs.  There was no need to change kernel/sched.c at all so you're probably
simply diffing the wrong versions.

  Ralf