Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:00:13 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: prev->has_cpu |
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On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Does this patch make sense or I have slept too little this night ;-)?
The patch has a serious bug: it marks the new CPU too late (after the switch). That, in turn, means that if any interrupts come in at a bad time that want to look at the CPU number, they get a stale value.
Why would you want to move the setting?
Linus
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