Re: [PATCH] solved APM bug with -rc5

[Linus Torvalds]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Willy Tarreau  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:16:23PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>> On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 21:35, Willy TARREAU wrote:
>> > +	while (cpu_number_map(smp_processor_id()) != 0) {
>> > +		schedule();
>> > +	}
> 
>> What guarantees that loop will ever exit ?
>
>none, as in the already existing other implementation. But at least, I'd
>prefer an infinite loop instead of some random code being executed without
>noticing it.
>
>Do you know a better way of doing that ?

It should set its CPU affinity to be cpu0. I don't know how well that
works in 2.4.x, though. Ask Ingo..

		Linus