Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2004 08:42:02 -0500 | From | Brian King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Use workqueue for call_usermodehelper |
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Chris Wright wrote: > * Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au) wrote: > >>[ Vatsa, this should solve your NUMA+HOTPLUG_CPU deadlock too, I think ] >> >>This uses the create_singlethread_workqueue() function presented in the >>last patch, although it could just as easily use create_workqueue(). > > > Nice, this seems like it should fixup the problem Brian was seeing too, > and maintain return code from kernel_thread(), etc. instead of the async > option. Brian, did you give these changes a whirl? (they're in latest > -mm tree)
I tried out the fix on my system and it seemed to work fine. However, I am having trouble recreating the deadlock with old code now that my system has been reconfigured...
-Brian
-- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center
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