Linus,

I found this bug in 2.4 kernel. I have verified that the bug exists on MIPS
SMP and PPC SMP, but not on i386 SMP.  See the detailed explanation inside the
patch.

2.5 sched.c has been re-written quite a bit and does not have this problem.


http://linux.junsun.net/patches/generic/submitted/020515-2.4.18-smp-sched-typo.patch

Jun