>>>>> " " == Klaus Dittrich <kladit@t-online.de> writes:
> Kernel: 2.4.7p5 or 2.4.7p6 System: PII-SMP, BX-Chipset
> The kernel boots up to the message
> .. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University
> Computer Society NET3.039
> and then stops.
> I actually use 2.4.7p3 without problems.
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.
I managed to band-aid over the problem by replacing the loop with a
semaphore which the child clears when it has been initialized (as per
the appended patch).
Linus?
Cheers,
Trond
--- linux-2.4.7-smp/kernel/softirq.c.orig Wed Jul 11 10:31:50 2001
+++ linux-2.4.7-smp/kernel/softirq.c Wed Jul 11 14:43:03 2001
@@ -371,6 +371,8 @@
}
}
+static DECLARE_MUTEX_LOCKED(ksoftirqd_start);
+
static int ksoftirqd(void * __bind_cpu)
{
int bind_cpu = *(int *) __bind_cpu;
@@ -391,6 +393,7 @@
mb();
ksoftirqd_task(cpu) = current;
+ up(&ksoftirqd_start);
for (;;) {
if (!softirq_pending(cpu))
@@ -416,12 +419,8 @@
if (kernel_thread(ksoftirqd, (void *) &cpu,
CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGNAL) < 0)
printk("spawn_ksoftirqd() failed for cpu %d\n", cpu);
- else {
- while (!ksoftirqd_task(cpu_logical_map(cpu))) {
- current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD;
- schedule();
- }
- }
+ else
+ down(&ksoftirqd_start);
}
return 0;
-
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