* Jan Luebbe <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Jan Lübbe <[email protected]>
>
> The new behaviour of CFS exposes a race which occurs if a switch is
> requested when vt_mode.mode is VT_PROCESS.
>
> The process with vc->vt_pid is signaled before vc->vt_newvt is set. This
> causes the switch to fail when triggered by the monitoing process
> because the target is still -1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Lübbe <[email protected]>
nifty! I'm wondering what the symptoms of this bug were - how did you
notice it? Also, i'm wondering how you managed to debug this - looks
quite hard to trigger this race, right?
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Ingo
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