Re: posix-cpu-timers revamp

[Frank Mayhar]

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 14:27 -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> And, you guessed it, the invariant gets violated.  Apparently the passed
> task_struct isn't the same as "current" at this point.
> 
> Any ideas?  Am I checking the wrong thing?  If we're really not updating
> current then the task we are updating could very easily be running
> through __exit_signal() on another CPU.  (And while I wait for your
> response I will of course continue to try to figure this out.)

Found the exception.  do_fork() violates the invariant when it's
cranking up a new process.  Hmmm.
-- 
Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Google, Inc.

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