From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 12:08:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 12:08:22 -0400 Received: from jalon.able.es ([212.97.163.2]:1510 "EHLO jalon.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 12:08:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 18:07:58 +0200 From: "J . A . Magallon" To: Hugh Dickins Cc: "J . A . Magallon" , Alan Cox , Peter Osterlund , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac2 Message-ID: <20010501180758.A1057@werewolf.able.es> In-Reply-To: <20010501170632.A1057@werewolf.able.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: ; from hugh@veritas.com on Tue, May 01, 2001 at 17:50:52 +0200 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05.01 Hugh Dickins wrote: > > Don't ask me why, but I think you may find it's Peter's patch to > the women-and-children-first in kernel/fork.c: I'm not yet running > -ac2, but I am trying that patch, fine on UP but hanging right there > (well, I get a "go go go" message too) on SMP. > After APIC_DEBUG = 1, I also get the gogo, i will try reverting the change. > Try reversing the: > > - p->counter = current->counter; > - current->counter = 0; > + p->counter = (current->counter + 1) >> 1; > + current->counter >>= 1; > + current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD; > -- J.A. Magallon # Let the source mailto:jamagallon@able.es # be with you, Luke... Linux werewolf 2.4.4-ac1 #1 SMP Tue May 1 11:35:17 CEST 2001 i686