Re: [PATCH] kernel: async: Fixed the wrong waitting condition of wait_event
From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Jan 07 2015 - 19:37:23 EST
On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 11:35:35 +0800 Chunyan Zhang <chunyan.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch changes the waitting condition of wait_event in the
> function 'async_synchronize_cookie_domain'.
>
> This function waits until all asynchronous function calls for the certain
> domain have been done.
>
> But, the function 'lowest_in_progress' returns the lowest *pending*
> entry's cookie.
>
> So we should make sure that the return value of lowest_in_progress(domain)
> must be larger than @cookie.
I'm having runtime problems with this. Twice the kernel silently hangs
late in initcalls and the third time I got a great stream of oopses.
I'll drop it. Hopefully you'll be able to work through the bug with
Arjan and Tajun.
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