linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -rt] scheduling while atomic in remove_proc

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Date:	Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:59:37 -0800
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt] scheduling while atomic in remove_proc_entry()

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 13:20 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> 
> Well, no. Draining after the inspect 'all' loop doesn't make sense, but
> looking at 2.6.20-rc3-rt0 remove_proc_entry() looks sane.

When it was inside the loop it drained every iteration . So it made more
sense to put it after the loop. But I don't have a clue what the drain
is doing (might be good to add liberal comments, if you haven't
already).

Daniel

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