linux-stable.git/kernel, branch linux-2.6.11.y Linux kernel stable tree [PATCH] Remove bogus BUG() in kernel/exit.c 2005-05-12T17:00:24+00:00 akpm@osdl.org akpm@osdl.org 2005-05-11T22:29:03+00:00 ff50504a94b7cd817f856cca5db69f01b2cebabf Remove bogus BUG() in kernel/exit.c It's old sanity checking that may have been useful for debugging, but is just bogus these days. Noticed by Mattia Belletti. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 
Remove bogus BUG() in kernel/exit.c

It's old sanity checking that may have been useful for debugging, but
is just bogus these days.

Noticed by Mattia Belletti.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
[PATCH] tasklist left locked 2005-05-12T17:00:14+00:00 hugh@veritas.com hugh@veritas.com 2005-03-19T05:41:52+00:00 80f9a237983740508b1676bd56fdfd68ebe2d12d On 4-way SMP, about one reboot in twenty hangs while killing processes: exit needs exclusive tasklist_lock, but something still holds read_lock. do_signal_stop race case misses unlock, and fixing it fixes the symptom. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 
On 4-way SMP, about one reboot in twenty hangs while killing processes:
exit needs exclusive tasklist_lock, but something still holds read_lock.
do_signal_stop race case misses unlock, and fixing it fixes the symptom.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2.6.11 import 2005-05-12T16:59:06+00:00 Greg KH gregkh@suse.de 2005-05-12T16:59:06+00:00 279a9acc9b72a11091f4bd4781f8aa91071acc2e