linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kthread: Enhance kthread_stop to abort interruptible sleeps

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Message-ID: <m1mz0yt4c5.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:11:06 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: Enhance kthread_stop to abort interruptible sleeps

Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> writes:

>
> Yes, it was fairly early in boot.  I didn't check what we're oopsing on.

Thanks.

It was definitely vfork_done == NULL from what I can read of the Oops and
the code.

> That was on a Fedora Core 3 machine.  One of those older distros I keep
> around to trip people up.

That could be something there.  Hopefully this is independent of compiler.
Otherwise it will suck to track down.

Eric



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