Re: do_syslog/__down_trylock lockup in current BK

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 15:40:53 EST


On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> the lockup is likely in the while loop - ie. zap_thread() not actually
> reparenting a thread and thus causing an infinite loop - is that possible?

Hmm.. This patch changes the last argument of zap_thread() from a "1" to a
"0" for the ptrace_children list. Was that intentional or a cut-and-paste
error? If it was intentional, please remove the argument altogether, since
it's now always 0.

                Linus

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