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Re: System crash in tcp_fragment()

To: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: System crash in tcp_fragment()
From: george anzinger <george@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 17:26:29 -0700
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, davem@xxxxxxxxxx, ak@xxxxxx, pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx
Organization: Monta Vista Software
References: <200205210011.EAA04286@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> > It's unfortunately the truth. Even in_interrupt() is buggy current
> > on SMP preemptive.
> 
> And why folks working on preemtive kernel do not repair this?
> To all that I remember it is well known issue.
> 
Ah, but we have.  in_interrupt() was fixed about a month
ago.  I think Robert got it into all the patches.  Whats
more, it is a bit faster too :)

-- 
George Anzinger   george@xxxxxxxxxx
High-res-timers: 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Real time sched:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtsched/
Preemption patch:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml

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