From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261352AbVEZMdM (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 08:33:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261358AbVEZMdM (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 08:33:12 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:33235 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261352AbVEZMc4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 08:32:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 18:11:10 +0530 From: Dinakar Guniguntala To: Paul Jackson Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Simon Derr , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc4] cpuset rmdir scheduling while atomic fix Message-ID: <20050526124110.GB6496@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: dino@in.ibm.com References: <20050526082516.927.6806.sendpatchset@tomahawk.engr.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050526082516.927.6806.sendpatchset@tomahawk.engr.sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 01:25:16AM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > > The cpuset kernel code can generate a "scheduling while atomic" > complaint from the cpuset_rmdir code. This complaint means > that we had to sleep while trying to get the cpuset_sem global > semaphore during the handling of a 'rmdir()' call to remove > a cpuset. > Paul, This was the same problem that I had reported earlier and fixed as well See, Message Id: fa.c883kus.qjgijs@ifi.uio.no on google groups As far as I can see this has already been fixed and is in 2.6.12-rc5-mm1 -Dinakar