[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 2/2] spufs: Remove spurious WARN_ON for spu_deactivate for NOSCHED contexts

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 09:40:37AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > IIRC, time we discussed this the conclusion was that NOSCHED tasks
> > should not dump core, as that just creates extra special cases
> > and you can't debug them anyway.
> 
> That's the point. You _should_ be able to dump them and you _should_ be
> able to debug them. If I nice(1) a process it doesn't all of a sudden
> become undebuggable.

Very bad analogy.  nice actually propagates to spu contexts and of
course doesn't make them undebugable.