Re: 2.6.1-mm4

[Andrew Morton]

Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  > Code: 0a 3c c0 89 10 83 0d 20 0a 3c c0 20 a3 00 0a 3c c0 b8 00 e0 ff ff 21 
>  > e0 f7 40 14 00 ff ff 00 75 15 8b 15 40 0b 3c c0 85 d2 74 0b <8b> 02 85 c0 
>  > 75 0a 90 8d 74 26 00 53 9d 5b 5d c3 89 d0 e8 b4 1a
>  > <6>note: S01reboot[2352] exited with preempt_count 1
> 
>  I was getting something like that on reboot a few days ago, I think it
>  was with 2.6.1-mm2.  I had to move on before debugging it fully, but
>  the impression I got (maybe vile calumny, sue me Rusty) was that the
>  new kthread_create for 2.6.1-mm's ksoftirqd was leaving it vulnerable
>  to shutdown kill, whereas other things (RCU in my traces) still needed
>  it around and assumed its task address still valid.

Yes.  ksoftirqd and the migration threads can now be killed off
with `kill -9'.
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