Re: locking api self-test hanging

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sun Feb 03 2008 - 18:08:29 EST


On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:02:46 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> With current mainline I'm getting intermittent hangs here:
>
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/p2033590.jpg
>
> with this config:
>
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt
>
> on the Vaio. Sometimes it boots (then hits another different hang),
> sometimes it gets stuck there.
>

The second hang is in kobject_uevent_init(). All that function does is call
netlink_kernel_create().

These things make bisecting all the other bugs rather hard.
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