From: Bongani <bonganilinux@mweb.co.za>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.8-pre2: preempt: exits with preempt_count 1
Date: 11 Apr 2002 00:14:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1018476875.6315.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1018463295.6681.18.camel@phantasy>
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 20:28, Robert Love wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 08:53, Duncan Sands wrote:
>
> > error: halt[411] exited with preempt_count 1
> >
> > This was after about 24 hours of up time. What can I do to help
> > track down this locking problem?
>
> It is not a big deal. The issue is that in the system shutdown code,
> something does not release a lock but just figures "the system is going
> down, what is the point?" It is probably the BKL ...
>
> For the sake of code readability and having nothing quit with a nonzero
> preempt_count, we should explicitly drop the lock, but it is not hurting
> anything (now, if you get this message elsewhere, there may be a
> problem).
>
> I am trying to find what is the cause but I have not tracked it down yet
This is also still happening on 2.4.19-pre6 + preempt
> ...
>
> Robert Love
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-10 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-10 12:53 2.5.8-pre2: preempt: exits with preempt_count 1 Duncan Sands
2002-04-10 18:28 ` Robert Love
2002-04-10 18:42 ` Pierre Rousselet
2002-04-10 19:21 ` Duncan Sands
2002-04-10 22:07 ` Chris Wright
2002-04-10 22:14 ` Bongani [this message]
2002-04-10 18:40 ` Skip Ford
2002-04-10 19:20 ` Duncan Sands
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