Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267657AbUIOWZ6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:25:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267656AbUIOWXd (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:23:33 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:51432 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267648AbUIOWXO (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:23:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] fix keventd execution dependency From: Rusty Russell To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , lkml - Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20040914112548.GB592@elte.hu> References: <20040914095731.GA24622@elte.hu> <20040914100652.GB24622@elte.hu> <20040914101904.GD24622@elte.hu> <20040914102517.GE24622@elte.hu> <20040914104449.GA30790@elte.hu> <20040914105048.GA31238@elte.hu> <20040914105904.GB31370@elte.hu> <20040914110237.GC31370@elte.hu> <20040914110611.GA32077@elte.hu> <20040914110838.GA32466@elte.hu> <20040914112548.GB592@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1095286739.1942.10.camel@bach> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:18:59 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 661 Lines: 17 On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 21:25, Ingo Molnar wrote: > We dont want to execute off keventd since it might hold a semaphore our > callers hold too. This can happen when kthread_create() is called from > within keventd. This happened due to the IRQ threading patches but it > could happen with other code too. Ackl, thanks Ingo, looks fine. Rusty. -- Anyone who quotes me in their signature is an idiot -- Rusty Russell - 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/