Re: 2.6.8-rc3-mm2

V13
2004-08-10T12:53:49Z

On Tuesday 10 August 2004 14:53, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:00:51AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >>> It deadlocks with or without the fork_idle() call being via keventd;
> >>> the printk change is what makes the difference. =(
>
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:38:31AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >> Okay, it deadlocks with both mdelay(1000) and yield() in place of the
> >> printk(). Trying manual calls to schedule() and local_irq_enable() next.
>
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 03:02:34AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > Replacing the printk() with either of the following two things didn't
> > work: (a) yield();
> > (b) local_irq_enable(); set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); schedule();
>
> Okay, these also failed as replacements for printk():
> (c) local_irq_enable();
> (d) local_irq_enable(); set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
> schedule(); mdelay(1000);
> (e) local_irq_enable(); set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
> for (i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) mdelay(1);
> set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); schedule();

Why don't you create a copy of printk() and start commenting out lines in
there?

> -- wli
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