Re: 2.2.9 oops

Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX)
Thu, 27 May 1999 17:47:48 +0100 (GMT)


Hi Tim.

>> Attached herewith are the files you requested compiles from a
>> pristine 2.2.9+Tim_Waugh_cyclades_patch

> Okay. What's going on is that info->close_wait is non-zero and
> 'active', but (*info->close_wait)->task is 0x1! __wake_up then
> trips over it when we say
> 'wake_up_interruptible(&info->close_wait)'.

> I can't see any way that can ever happen.
> (*info->close_wait)->task must always be 8k-aligned, since it's
> always set to current whenever it's set.

Why 8k-aligned? Aren't pages 4k in size (at least on ix86), or am I
misunderstanding completely what you're referring to?

Best wishes from Riley.

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