preempt_disable query

Hi,

1) Is it allowable to sleep (while in process context) after a call to
preempt_disable()?

2) Would a call to preempt_disable() disable preemption only on the
local processor or on all the processors?

TIA,

Rick
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Re: preempt_disable query

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Rick Brown wrote:

> 1) Is it allowable to sleep (while in process context) after a call to
> preempt_disable()?
Sleeping in the kernel with preemption disabled is considered to be a
bug. So the scheduler will print an error and a stack dump when this
happens.
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