Re: [PATCH] proc: task_mmu bug fix.

[Hugh Dickins]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> 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
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