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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: Enhance kthread_stop to abort interruptible sleeps
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Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:

>
> Yes, it was fairly early in boot.  I didn't check what we're oopsing on.

Thanks.

It was definitely vfork_done == NULL from what I can read of the Oops and
the code.

> That was on a Fedora Core 3 machine.  One of those older distros I keep
> around to trip people up.

That could be something there.  Hopefully this is independent of compiler.
Otherwise it will suck to track down.

Eric