Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269314AbUJGAxi (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 20:53:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269356AbUJGAxi (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 20:53:38 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:21134 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269314AbUJGAxf (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 20:53:35 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Pasi Savolainen Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc3-mm2 Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 00:53:31 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1096968325.2628.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: a11a.mannikko1.ton.tut.fi User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1181 Lines: 25 * Hugh Dickins : > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 19:13, Pasi Savolainen wrote: >> > LD .tmp_vmlinux1 >> > KSYM .tmp_kallsyms1.S >> > make: *** wait: No child processes. Stop. >> > - - >> > The 'no child processes' keeps on coming up at 'random' moments under >> > rc3-mm1. First time ever that I've seen it otherwise. >> >> Just a simple mee too! >> on 2.6.9-rc3-mm2-VP-T0 and on some earlier Sx patches as well. >> Unfortunatly I haven't had time to track back as to when this was >> introduced. > > Please, would you try this patch below that I posted yesterday? > At the time I thought the trylock was hardly used so not urgent. Thanks, this seemed to fix it. In my case these came very frequently and easily. No Zombie processes were in 'ps aux' output, but I think it's being talked about in the other thread. -- Psi -- - 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/