Fw: [PATCH 01/01] arm: fix a preempt_count() corruption for CONFIG_PREEMPT=n

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 03:54:12PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Can you try this patch? I'll probably send a follow up patch that
> consolidates the duplicated preempt_decrement code into some assembly
> macro. We may also want to fix it up so that assembly stubs call into
> the preempt tracer. I'm not sure how that works right now with VFP.

This looks like a sensible fix to me - once tested of course.