Hello Mr McKenney... > HT is indeed SMP as far as memory barriers are concerned. > > However, this does not necessarily mean that each and every assignment > to task_struct->state is a bug. You need to look at the context -- what > locks are held, whether the task structure in question is accessible > to other CPUs (e.g., during initialization), and so on. Of course, if > you have a test case that forces a failure, and changing to use > set_task_state() prevents that failure, please submit the patch to > LKML. Thank you for your extensive explanation, Mr McKenney, it is helpful...at least for me.I'll let rajaram to study all these informations first, since this is actually his coding's problem. NB:Merry Christmast and Happy New year for you and your family... regards Mulyadi -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
