Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2001 19:10:43 +0100 (CET) | From | Pau Aliagas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: Zombies with 2.4.15pre5 (exit.c) |
| |
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Dave McCracken wrote:
> > Running 2.4.15pre5 (UP) on i386, running UML 2.4.14-2. > > UML processes create threads on the host system that don't > > die. Threads are stuck at do_exit( ), so I backed out the > > patch to kernel/exit.c @ 539 (in 2.4.15pre5 patch): > > > > p->state = TASK_DEAD; > > > > and things work fine. I do not see zombies with anything > > other than UML processes/native threads. > > The intent of the original patch was to make the task unfindable to other > waiters, which fixed a race condition in sys_wait4(). My assumption was > that the task was about to be cleaned up in release_task(). What I missed > was that there are a couple of code paths that don't release the task, but > assume it'll be cleaned up later. > > The patch below should fix the problem.
It doesn't for me. I'll try OGAWA Hirofumi's patch -posted to the list- and let you know.
Pau
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |