On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> --- 2.2.15pre4/mm/page_alloc.c.~1~ Tue Jan 25 15:40:06 2000
> +++ 2.2.15pre4/mm/page_alloc.c Fri Jan 28 10:29:15 2000
> @@ -242,6 +242,7 @@
> * waiting for us we need to allow it to run a bit.
> */
> if (gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) {
> + current->state = TASK_RUNNING;
> current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD;
> schedule();
> }
This won't work. I've seen TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and TASK_ZOMBIE
tasks trying to allocate memory. You don't want to change the
state of one of these processes to TASK_RUNNING...
(that could mess up the calling code in a horrible way)
regards,
Rik
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