Re: [patch] Re: scheduler oddity [bug?]

From: David Newall
Date: Mon Mar 09 2009 - 20:20:45 EST


Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 00:30 +1030, David Newall wrote:
>
>> Wasn't it reported to be caused by an off-by-one bug in commit
>> 38736f475071b80b66be28af7b44c854073699cc?
>>
>
> Completely different issue. Unfortunate interference of effects though.


And yet, there *is* a bug in that commit, being, as I explained, that it
won't return a task if it's the last entry in the list, which seems
quite likely immediately after a fork. Has my patch been tried?
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