From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au (Herbert Xu)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Remotely rebooting a machine with state 'D' processes, how?
Date: 11 Aug 2001 00:55:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <k2y9orcyod.fsf@zero.aec.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200108102159.f7ALxb908284@penguin.transmeta.com> <E15VL6x-0007Jm-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au's message of "Fri, 10 Aug 2001 22:52:04 +0000 (UTC)"
In article <E15VL6x-0007Jm-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>,
herbert@gondor.apana.org.au (Herbert Xu) writes:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
>> In article <20010810231906.A21435@bonzo.nirvana> you write:
>> You have to use the reboot() system call directly as root, with the
>> proper arguments to make it avoid doing even any sync. See
>> man 2 reboot
> How do you do this when the process in the D state is holding the BKL?
A process in D state sleeps and the BKL is always automatically dropped
when a process sleeps.
Bigger problems are other semaphores like inode sems, especially
when they belong to important shared libraries or directories.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-10 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-10 21:19 Remotely rebooting a machine with state 'D' processes, how? Axel Thimm
2001-08-10 21:57 ` Brian
2001-08-10 21:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-10 22:50 ` Herbert Xu
2001-08-10 22:55 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2001-08-10 23:05 ` Herbert Xu
2001-08-10 22:57 ` Robert Love
2001-08-10 22:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-10 23:50 ` Herbert Xu
2001-08-11 0:04 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-08-19 4:02 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2001-08-11 0:06 ` Chris Abbey
2001-08-10 22:58 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-11 7:26 ` Axel Thimm
2001-08-11 11:28 ` Kai Henningsen
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2001-08-10 23:25 Ricardo Galli
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