Re: [PATCH] fix loop with disabled tasklets

Andrea Arcangeli
2001-11-12T14:05:48Z

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 12:03:05AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 02:11:42 +0100
>
> I'm just guessing: the scheduler isn't yet functional when
> spawn_ksoftirqd is called.
>
> The scheduler is fully functional, this isn't what is going wrong.

check ret_from_fork path, sparc32 scheduler is broken and this is why it
deadlocks at boot, it has nothing to do with the softirq code, softirq
code is innocent and it only get bitten by the sparc32 bug.

Andrea