Messages in this thread | | | From | Jason Stubbs <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: Consistent lock up on >=2.6.8 | Date | Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:17:48 +0900 |
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On Tuesday 05 October 2004 10:58, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@work-at.co.jp> wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 October 2004 04:05, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > update_defense_level() is calling si_meminfo() from timer context. > > > But si_meminfo takes non-irq-safe locks. > > > > > > Move it all to keventd context. > > > > That appears to have fixed it. I'm running my regular test and, while > > interactivity is non-existent, it hasn't locked. I'll leave it going for > > another few hours and report back to confirm.
Going on 3 hours and no problems.
> > Much gratitude. I should go out and buy a kernel book so that I may some > > day be able to repay the favour. :) > > You reported the bug, then you applied and ran the debug patch and then you > sent back the info which was necessary to arrive at a fix and then you > tested the fix. > > How could you possibly have anything further to "repay"?
Nevertheless... :)
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