From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753243Ab1LCQpA (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2011 11:45:00 -0500 Received: from e28smtp05.in.ibm.com ([122.248.162.5]:55473 "EHLO e28smtp05.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752834Ab1LCQo5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2011 11:44:57 -0500 Message-ID: <4EDA51FF.8050904@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:14:47 +0530 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110927 Thunderbird/7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miles Lane CC: LKML , Len Brown , Pavel Machek , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Tejun Heo , Linux PM mailing list Subject: Re: 3.2.0-rc4+ (Linus GIT af968e29acd91ebeb4224e899202c46c93171ecd) -- Freezing of tasks failed after 20.01 seconds (1 tasks refusing to freeze, wq_busy=0): References: <4ED9C7D7.5030300@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-cbid: 11120316-8256-0000-0000-0000005F9BE0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/03/2011 09:07 PM, Miles Lane wrote: > Thanks! The patch worked perfectly. > > Miles > I had written that patch when I found a possibility of freezing failure when looking at the code. I hadn't really hit the problem myself. (And to test my patch's effectiveness, I had used a synthetic scenario that I had created.) So, since you seem to have hit the problem during normal usage itself and not while doing anything fancy, out of curiosity, what triggered the problem? Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat