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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:58:04 +0000
From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Notifier for significant events on i386
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On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:53:35AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> The use of notifier today is limited to things that can't sleep. As far

kernel/profile.c

You'd have to move that to a different API if you want to force notifier
callbacks non-sleepable

regards
john

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