Re: [PATCH 2/7] sched: Fix picking a task switching on other cpu (__ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 08:33:26PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 08:51:22PM +0400, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> > From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > We may pick a task which is in context_switch() on other cpu at the moment.
> > Parallel using of a single stack by two processes is not a good idea.
> 
> Please elaborate on who exactly that might happen. Its best to have
> comprehensive changelogs for issues that fix races.

typing hard, ugh. s/who/how/
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