Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:03:51 -0600 (CST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: Hung task when calling clone() due to netfilter/slab |
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Oh. I see. The problem is calling kobject_uevent (which happens to > live in slabs sysfs_slab_add) with a lock held. And kobject_uevent > makes a blocking call to userspace. > > No locks held seems to be a good policy on that one.
Well we can just remove that call to kobject_uevent instead then. Does it do anything useful? Cannot remember why we put that in there.
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