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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:04:41 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: doublefault debugging (was Re: Linux v2.5.62 --- spontaneous
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Fixes two deadlocks in the scheduler exit path:
> 
> 1: We're calling mmdrop() under spin_lock_irq(&rq->lock).  But mmdrop
>    calls vfree(), which calls smp_call_function().  

this has been fixed in the -F3 scheduler patch.

	Ingo

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