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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@linuxcare.com.au>
To: tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.0-test1 linux/sched.h
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:26:14 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14669.33990.581970.248299@argo.linuxcare.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39478BE8.3B6E6157@vnet.ibm.com>


tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com writes:

> Anyone notice that on
>
> 2.4.0-test1-ac18 that sched.h was changed to remove
>
> #define PF_PTRACED 0x00000010
> #define PF_TRACESYS 0x00000020

Yes, this was part of a fix for a race condition in accessing the
tsk->flags field.  Initially only ix86 was updated with the necessary
changes but I have since sent in a patch to Alan and it should be
fixed in the latest -ac version.

Paul.

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      reply	other threads:[~2000-06-19  2:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-14 13:43 2.4.0-test1 linux/sched.h tom_gall
2000-06-19  2:26 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]

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