Re: [PATCH] Use workqueue for call_usermodehelper

[Brian King]

Chris Wright wrote:
> * Rusty Russell (rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>
> > [ Vatsa, this should solve your NUMA+HOTPLUG_CPU deadlock too, I think ]
> >
> > This uses the create_singlethread_workqueue() function presented in the
> > last patch, although it could just as easily use create_workqueue().
>
>
> Nice, this seems like it should fixup the problem Brian was seeing too,
> and maintain return code from kernel_thread(), etc. instead of the async
> option.  Brian, did you give these changes a whirl? (they're in latest
> -mm tree)

I tried out the fix on my system and it seemed to work fine. However, I
am having trouble recreating the deadlock with old code now that my
system has been reconfigured...

-Brian


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Brian King
eServer Storage I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center

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