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Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic-smp: remove kmalloc()
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 18:40 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > What do you think?
> 
> While I would say, don't do that to your deadlock scenario, I do like
> the extra freedom this provides, so I'm inclined to go with this. Let me
> spin a new patch and build a kernel with it ;-)

Should we do the same for the _single case? It too can copy the csd data
into the stack and return before calling func.