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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:07:21 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process()
 elimination, 2.5.35-BK
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On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> Not quite all of them. top(1) takes out the machine by triggering calls
> to get_pid_list(), which NMI oopses fork() and exit() on other cpus.

one of my patches in 2.5.35 solves that.

	Ingo

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