Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Oct 2004 12:57:54 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.9-rc3-mm2 |
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* Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> Yes, that _raw_read_trylock patch has fixed my zombie problem: since > 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 my repeated kernel builds would hang after several > hours, with a zombie (usually cc1) on one cpu and its waiting parent > (usually gcc) on another, with the puzzle of why the parent had never > got woken - because do_wait's read_lock(&tasklist_lock) went ahead > even while exit_notify held the write lock.
great, thanks for tracking this down!
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