From: Chris Wright <chris@wirex.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr>,
Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.8-pre2: preempt: exits with preempt_count 1
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:07:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020410150715.A1550@figure1.int.wirex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16vHbV-0000M5-00@baldrick> <1018463295.6681.18.camel@phantasy>
* Robert Love (rml@tech9.net) 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).
ditto with nfs. doesn't require a system shutdown, just stopping the
nfs server.
error: nfsd[983] exited with preempt_count 1
error: rpciod[994] exited with preempt_count 1
error: lockd[993] exited with preempt_count 1
cheers,
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-10 22:07 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 [this message]
2002-04-10 22:14 ` Bongani
2002-04-10 18:40 ` Skip Ford
2002-04-10 19:20 ` Duncan Sands
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