Re: 2.5.8-pre2: preempt: exits with preempt_count 1

[Chris Wright]

* Robert Love ([e-mail]) wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 08:53, Duncan Sands wrote:
> 
> > error: halt[411] exited with preempt_count 1
> > 
> > This was after about 24 hours of up time.  What can I do to help
> > track down this locking problem?
> 
> It is not a big deal.  The issue is that in the system shutdown code,
> something does not release a lock but just figures "the system is going
> down, what is the point?"  It is probably the BKL ...
> 
> For the sake of code readability and having nothing quit with a nonzero
> preempt_count, we should explicitly drop the lock, but it is not hurting
> anything (now, if you get this message elsewhere, there may be a
> problem).

ditto with nfs.  doesn't require a system shutdown, just stopping the
nfs server.

error: nfsd[983] exited with preempt_count 1
error: rpciod[994] exited with preempt_count 1
error: lockd[993] exited with preempt_count 1

cheers,
-chris