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SubjectRe: 2.6.8.1-mm2

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> see the patch i just sent - it disables hotplug in that critical
> self-reap section.
>
> (another solution would be for the hotplug code to also look into the
> local runqueue for tasks to migrate, not only the tasklist.)

yet another solution would be to do proc_pid_flush() earlier in
release_task(). This opens up some races elsewhere which need to be
solved (iirc mostly in the /proc code, see ->proc_lock) but should solve
it a bit nicer i think.

Ingo
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