Re: 2.4.0-test9-pre8

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 08:24:59 EST


On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:

> I'm experiencing what appears to be lockups, but probably not.

They're lockups allright. I went over the VM code and buffer.c
today and found a whole bunch of rescheduling points where the
kernel can call schedule() while current->state != TASK_RUNNING,
causing the task to never be scheduled in again ...

I'm making a patch to fix those right now.

regards,

Rik

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