Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261869AbVCIQEw (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:04:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262060AbVCIQEP (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:04:15 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:65261 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261951AbVCIQCT (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:02:19 -0500 Subject: Re: badness in interruptible_sleep_on_timeout FC-3 (source code and Makefile attached) From: Arjan van de Ven To: "Srinivas G." Cc: linux-kernel-Mailing-list In-Reply-To: <4EE0CBA31942E547B99B3D4BFAB348113A48C2@mail.esn.co.in> References: <4EE0CBA31942E547B99B3D4BFAB348113A48C2@mail.esn.co.in> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 17:02:14 +0100 Message-Id: <1110384134.6280.127.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 4.1 (++++) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 2.63 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (4.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.3 RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO Received: contains a numeric HELO 1.1 RCVD_IN_DSBL RBL: Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org [] 2.5 RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK RBL: Sent directly from dynamic IP address [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS RBL: SORBS: sender is listed in SORBS [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 640 Lines: 18 On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 20:12 +0530, Srinivas G. wrote: > > > I have developed a small module in Fedora Core 3 with 2.6.9-1.667 > kernel > version. This module uses the interruptible_sleep_on_timeout call and don't use interruptible_sleep_on_timeout() !!!! really. (and if you want to use the sleep_on() family of apis even when you shouldn't, you HAVE to hold the big kernel lock for them!) - 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/