Re: [PATCH] Watch out for those flags!

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Sun Jul 23 2000 - 12:48:01 EST

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Hi!

> A recent change was made to the scheduler which broke sparc32 SMP. You dont
> know what you might catch passing flags around like that.

Maybe hack that would save current stack pointer along with flags and
complain loudly if restore_flags was from other stack frame? I guess
there are much more such places. [Doing it on SMP would be more
tricky...]

Pavel

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