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    [PATCH] Keep interrupts enabled in exit path · 776969f0
    Andrew Morton authored
    We are leaving local interrupts disabled coming out of exit_notify().
    
    But we are about to call wait_task_inactive() which spins, waiting for
    another CPU to end a task.  If that CPU has issued smp_call_function() to
    this CPU, deadlock.
    
    So the patch enables interrupts again before returning from exit_notify().
    
    Also, exit_notify() returns with preemption disabled, so there is no
    need to perform another preempt_disable() in do_exit().
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