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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:26:27 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] BUG(): sched.c: Line 944
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On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On the other hand, we do have other ways to test the preempt count
> inside the scheduler. In particular, we might just move the
> "in_atomic()" check a few lines downwards, at which point we've released
> the kernel lock and explicitly disabled preemption, so at that point the
> test should be even simpler with fewer conditionals..

indeed ...

	Ingo

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