Re: [PATCH] proc: task_mmu bug fix.

Hugh Dickins
2006-03-01T13:13:57Z

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
> >
> > Thanks. Do you think this is likely to fix the crashes reported by
> > Laurent, Jesper, Paul, Rafael and Martin?
>
> So I haven't tracked down all of the bug reports yet. But the
> few bits I have seen make it likely. First the task_mmu change
> was one of the largest change in logic I had to make. Second
> the ugly bug reports seem to be about an extra decrement. Third
> it seems to be my task_ref work that is the most implicated.

I was getting the same bootup __put_task_struct symptoms as Rafael,
and this patch fixes those nicely: looks stable now, thanks Eric.

Hugh