Re: [patch] pidhash-fix-2.5.36-A0

Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:11:12 +0200 (CEST)

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> the attached patch (against BK-curr) fixes a bug in the new PID
> allocator, which bug can cause incorrect hashing of the PID structure
> which causes infinite loops in find_pid(). [and potentially other
> problems.]

the patch is also a small speedup :-)

Ingo

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