Re: pre-2.1.130-3

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:11:41 +1100

Linus Torvalds writes:
> Also, thanks to Richard Gooch &co, who found the rather nasty race
> condition when a kernel thread was started from an init-region. The
> trivial fix was to not have the kernel thread function be inlined, but
> while fixing it was trivial, it wasn't trivial to notice in the first
> place. Good debugging.

Well, the kudos really belongs to Philipp Rumpf who figured out that
the inline functions were the cause of the oops I was getting. I'm
satisfied with basking in reflected glory ;-)

Regards,

Richard....

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