Re: Patch: linux-2.5.8-pre1/kernel/exit.c change caused BUG() atboot
george anzinger (george@mvista.com)
Thu, 04 Apr 2002 12:09:06 -0800
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On 4 Apr 2002, Robert Love wrote:
> >
> > Eh, maybe - what about all the code that sets non-running before putting
> > itself on a wait queue?
>
> In most cases that code will call a schedule itself.
>
> Of course, we might make just ZOMBIE a special case, but in general I
> think it's simply absolutely wrong for the preemption to change task
> internal data structures on its own.
>
Amen!
> Linus
>
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George Anzinger george@mvista.com
High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Real time sched: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtsched/
Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml
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