Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:05:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:05:38 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:42828 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:05:27 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:04:52 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: "David S. Miller" Cc: mathijs@knoware.nl, jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix loop with disabled tasklets Message-ID: <20011112150452.S1381@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20011110152845.8328F231A4@brand.mmohlmann.demon.nl> <20011110173751.C1381@athlon.random> <20011112021142.O1381@athlon.random> <20011112.000305.45744181.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20011112.000305.45744181.davem@redhat.com>; from davem@redhat.com on Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 12:03:05AM -0800 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 12:03:05AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Andrea Arcangeli > Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 02:11:42 +0100 > > I'm just guessing: the scheduler isn't yet functional when > spawn_ksoftirqd is called. > > The scheduler is fully functional, this isn't what is going wrong. check ret_from_fork path, sparc32 scheduler is broken and this is why it deadlocks at boot, it has nothing to do with the softirq code, softirq code is innocent and it only get bitten by the sparc32 bug. Andrea - 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/