RE: [PATCH] boobytrap 2 for 2.2.15pre5

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Things are much quieter now - nothing to report so far, so you should
ignore my previous exhortations.

Cheers

-tony

On 28-Jan-2000 Rik van Riel wrote:
> Hi Tony, Alan,
>
> as it turns out there is the SLAB_ATOMIC flag which can be
> used to call the slab cache in a legal way if the task isn't
> in TASK_RUNNING.
>
> The attached boobytrap2 patch adds checks for that situation
> and won't barf when something like that happens. This should
> reduce the number of false positives and the number of error
> messages (making it more convinient for people to test the
> patches).
>
> regards,
>
> Rik

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