Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:45:09 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Patch: linux-2.5.8-pre1/kernel/exit.c change caused BUG() at boot time |
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On 4 Apr 2002, Robert Love wrote: > > Eh, maybe - what about all the code that sets non-running before putting > itself on a wait queue?
In most cases that code will call a schedule itself.
Of course, we might make just ZOMBIE a special case, but in general I think it's simply absolutely wrong for the preemption to change task internal data structures on its own.
Linus
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