From: Ray Bryant <raybry@sgi.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Bug in __pollwait() can cause select() and poll() to hang in 2.4.21
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:18:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EF1F050.2FBFA654@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: p733ci65894.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de
Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Nasty bug. How about adding a BUG() for current->state != TASK_RUNNING at
> the beginning of __alloc_pages unless GFP_ATOMIC is set?
>
> -Andi
A good idea. There may be other places like this that call into
__alloc_pages() with current->state != TASK_RUNNING.
However, this may break otherwise happily running kernels being used in
production today that are not in low memory situations. Might it not be
better for me to run this in debug mode and see if we can find other
places where this is happening? If I don't find any, then we can add
the BUG() as a way to avoid future introductions of this problem.
--
Best Regards,
Ray
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2003-06-19 16:42 ` PROBLEM: Bug in __pollwait() can cause select() and poll() to hang in 2.4.21 Andi Kleen
2003-06-19 17:18 ` Ray Bryant [this message]
2003-06-19 15:35 Ray Bryant
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