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SubjectRe: [PATCH] unnecessary blocking interrupts in exit_notify()


On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Jun Sun wrote:
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> Would you please take this patch? It improves interrupt responsiveness,
> especially important for embedded systems.

It has a very serious bug.

It can deadlock due to an interrupt doing a read_lock() on the
tasklist_lock while we hold the write lock.

Linus


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