When we force thread hard and soft interrupts the startup of ksoftirqd would hang in kthread_bind() when wait_task_inactive() calls schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() because there is no softirq yet which will wake us up. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/sched.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6-tip/kernel/sched.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/kernel/sched.c +++ linux-2.6-tip/kernel/sched.c @@ -2224,7 +2224,10 @@ unsigned long wait_task_inactive(struct * yield - it could be a while. */ if (unlikely(on_rq)) { - schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1); + ktime_t to = ktime_set(0, NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ); + + set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); + schedule_hrtimeout(&to, HRTIMER_MODE_REL); continue; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/