From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Jarkko Lavinen <jlavi@iki.fi>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: complete_and_exit() problem
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 09:25:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9062.999591909@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010903155842.A19349@kosh.hut.fi>
jlavi@iki.fi said:
> The garbage collection thread crashes when I unmount JFFS2. The
> filesystem is empry and I only mount it and then unmount it. I am
> using kernel 2.4.8ac12 with rmk1 patch for ARM cpu.
> I traced the exeution to complete_and_exit(), then to complete(), then
> to __wake_up_common(). In __wake_up_common() there is a loop
<deletia -
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2001-September/003117.html >
> I tried replacing
> - if (comp)
> + if (comp && comp->wait.task_list.next)
> in complete_and_exit(). I don't know if it is the right way to do it,
> but at least the garbage gollection thread stopped crashing.
Looks like the list_head is uninitialised - we're in complete()
before anything's ever called init_completion().
ISTR this was the reason I bailed out on doing a quick fix for -ac before
disappearing to OLS.
--
dwmw2
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2001-09-03 12:58 complete_and_exit() problem Jarkko Lavinen
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