Re: 2.4.7p6 hang

[Trond Myklebust]

>>>>> " " == Andrew Morton <[e-mail]> writes:

     > Trond Myklebust wrote:
    >>
    >> ...  I have the same problem on my setup. To me, it looks like
    >> the loop in spawn_ksoftirqd() is suffering from some sort of
    >> atomicity problem.

     > Does a `set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);' in spawn_ksoftirqd()
     > fix it?  If so we have a rogue initcall...

Nope. The same thing happens as before.

A couple of debugging statements show that ksoftirqd_CPU0 gets created
fine, and that ksoftirqd_task(0) is indeed getting set correctly
before we loop in spawn_ksoftirqd().
After this the second call to kernel_thread() succeeds, but
ksoftirqd() itself never gets called before the hang occurs.

Cheers,
   Trond