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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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Searching for a free pid value and inserting the thread into the task 
list should be atomic, otherwise the same pid value could be given to 2 
threads.

do_fork runs without the BLK, you might have to search for the pid 
within the write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock) block.

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	Manfred

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