Re: 2.6.9-rc3-mm2

Pasi Savolainen
2004-10-07T00:53:38Z

* Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 19:13, Pasi Savolainen wrote:
>> > LD .tmp_vmlinux1
>> > KSYM .tmp_kallsyms1.S
>> > make: *** wait: No child processes. Stop.
>> > - -
>> > The 'no child processes' keeps on coming up at 'random' moments under
>> > rc3-mm1. First time ever that I've seen it otherwise.
>>
>> Just a simple mee too!
>> on 2.6.9-rc3-mm2-VP-T0 and on some earlier Sx patches as well.
>> Unfortunatly I haven't had time to track back as to when this was
>> introduced.
>
> Please, would you try this patch below that I posted yesterday?
> At the time I thought the trylock was hardly used so not urgent.

Thanks, this seemed to fix it.
In my case these came very frequently and easily. No Zombie processes
were in 'ps aux' output, but I think it's being talked about in the
other thread.

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