Re: doublefault debugging (was Re: Linux v2.5.62 --- spontaneous reboots)

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 17:04:41 EST


On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Fixes two deadlocks in the scheduler exit path:
>
> 1: We're calling mmdrop() under spin_lock_irq(&rq->lock). But mmdrop
> calls vfree(), which calls smp_call_function().

this has been fixed in the -F3 scheduler patch.

        Ingo

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