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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 01:55:55PM -0700, Rick Lindsley wrote:
> Well, this is what I meant by the release-on-sleep.  When you go to
> sleep, the BKL is actually released in the scheduler.
> Anything which is relying on this behavior needs to be redesigned.  It

This is an ugly aspect. But AFAICT the most that's needed to clean it
up is an explicit release before potentially sleeping.


Cheers,
Bill