Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Apr 2002 15:42:42 -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: > > Curiously, what is wrong with the way we did it in the original patch? > I.e. set a bit in preempt_count and use that to skip to pick_next_task > in schedule. This allows us to preempt any task of any state ...
Because that requires that every user of "set_task_state()" needs to know about preemption.
Btw, I think entry.S should just call preempt_schedule() instead, instead of knowing about these details.
Linus
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