Re: [PATCH for 2.5] preemptible kernel

From: Nigel Gamble (nigel@nrg.org)
Date: Sun Apr 01 2001 - 16:13:36 EST


On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, george anzinger wrote:
> I think this should be:
> if (p->has_cpu || p->state & TASK_PREEMPTED)) {
> to catch tasks that were preempted with other states.

But the other states are all part of the state change that happens at a
non-preemtive schedule() point, aren't they, so those tasks are already
safe to access the data we are protecting.

Nigel Gamble nigel@nrg.org
Mountain View, CA, USA. http://www.nrg.org/

MontaVista Software nigel@mvista.com

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