Re: doublefault debugging (was Re: Linux v2.5.62 --- spontaneous

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:40:02 -0800 (PST)


On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Suggested patch (against current BK, which has the finish_task_switch()
> cleanups I mentioned earlier) appended. No special cases, nu subtlety with
> __put_task_struct() caches, no nothing.

Yeah, don't bother to tell me it doesn't work. We need the task pointer to
include information on _both_ "I'm still using it" (the task itself) _and_
the "I'm waiting for it" case. So it's not just a matter of moving the
put_task() thing around, it needs to get the accounting right..

Linus

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