Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:42:27 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] preempt-safe load_LDT |
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On 20 Jul 2002, Robert Love wrote: > > Attached patch makes load_LDT preempt-safe per our off-list discussion.
It's buggy. It calls smp_processor_id() outside the preemption window, see "load_LDT()".
I'd suggest making it use get/put_cpu() and to avoid the header file dependencies moving it away from desc.h and into ldt.c instead.
Linus
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