Re: [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process() elimination, 2.5.35-BK

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 13:07:21 EST

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> Not quite all of them. top(1) takes out the machine by triggering calls
> to get_pid_list(), which NMI oopses fork() and exit() on other cpus.

one of my patches in 2.5.35 solves that.

        Ingo

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