On Wed, 04 May 2005 15:26:44 -0300, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Pereira_de_Almeida?= said: > In a preemptible kernel with the serport module and a serial port try to > run the following program: > and kill it. > In my case it will hang the computer. I think this is a problem with the > serport module. With this patch, the serial mouse stop working, but the > computer don't hang. The fact that the mouse stops working is indicative that this patch doesn't actually fix the problem, it's just pushing it around in the kernel - sooner or later something *else* is going to go pear-shaped on the null *mm. The right fix is to figure out why mm is bogus and fix that issue.
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