Andrew Morton wrote:

>It would be possible, yes.
>
>But thread creation is a "rare" event compared to pagefaults and syscalls. 
>An atomic_t will be OK there.
>  
>
Actually, the code is correct. The documentation it bogus. lock_kernel() 
never achieved any protection: the copy_xy() functions can sleep.

What about the attached docu update?

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    Manfred