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RE: 2.2.16 Alpha: "Fix SMP rescheduling with lock held"

Subject: RE: 2.2.16 Alpha: "Fix SMP rescheduling with lock held"
From: Greg Lindahl (glindahl@hpti.com)
Date: Tue Jun 13 11:29:35 2000

> If you see a bunch of "stuck" messages, and no "grabbed", THAT is a
> problem, ie usually the owner/CPU has died some horrible death without
> releasing the lock, and no progress can ever be made - you're hosed.
>
> Is this what you're seeing?

As I said, I am occasionally seeing that.

I'll send Peter some examples of stuck and stuck/grabbed, but you'd probably
see them yourself if you booted vanilla redhat 6.2 smp on a smp machine.

-- g 

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