Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac2

From: J . A . Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 11:07:58 EST


On 05.01 Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
> Don't ask me why, but I think you may find it's Peter's patch to
> the women-and-children-first in kernel/fork.c: I'm not yet running
> -ac2, but I am trying that patch, fine on UP but hanging right there
> (well, I get a "go go go" message too) on SMP.
>

After APIC_DEBUG = 1, I also get the gogo, i will try reverting the change.

> Try reversing the:
>
> - p->counter = current->counter;
> - current->counter = 0;
> + p->counter = (current->counter + 1) >> 1;
> + current->counter >>= 1;
> + current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD;
>

-- 
J.A. Magallon                                          #  Let the source
mailto:jamagallon@able.es                              #  be with you, Luke... 

Linux werewolf 2.4.4-ac1 #1 SMP Tue May 1 11:35:17 CEST 2001 i686

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