Re: [PATCH] move put_task_struct() reaping into a thread [Re: 2.6.18-rt1]

Ingo Molnar
2006-09-27T09:05:37Z

* Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org> wrote:

> Because the conversion of memory allocation routines like kmalloc and
> kfree aren't safely callable within a preempt_disable critical section
> since they were incompletely converted in the -rt. [...]

they were not 'incompletely converted' - they are /intentionally/ fully
preemptible.

Ingo