Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Sep 2003 18:16:53 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] Futex non-page-pinning fix |
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Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: > > I don't know of a rule which says "thou shalt not wake a random thread > in the kernel": for all I know wierd things like CPU hotplug or > software suspend may do this in the future.
pdflush is sensitive to that. It emits angry squeaks if unexpectedly woken.
And up until a couple of months ago there were sporadic squeaking reports, but they seem to have gone away.
Yes, we should treat a random wakeup like that as a bug.
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