Re: [PATCH] move put_task_struct() reaping into a thread [Re: 2.6.18-rt1]

* Bill Huey <[email protected]> wrote:

> Because the conversion of memory allocation routines like kmalloc and 
> kfree aren't safely callable within a preempt_disable critical section 
> since they were incompletely converted in the -rt. [...]

they were not 'incompletely converted' - they are /intentionally/ fully 
preemptible.

	Ingo
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