Re: [pktcdvd] Badness in fork.c:91 then Oops

[Peter Osterlund]

Mateusz.Blaszczyk@xxxxxxx writes:

> PKTCDVD seems to create some badness in kernel/fork, line 91:
> 
> I loaded pktcdvd manaully end everything was fine
> 
> Dec 30 08:32:46 localhost kernel: pktcdvd: v0.2.0a 2004-07-14 Jens Axboe (axboe@xxxxxxx) and petero2@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> Then I tried to map cd drive using udftools' pktsetup (v.1.0.3b):
> 
> Dec 30 08:33:27 localhost kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
> Dec 30 08:33:27 localhost kernel: Badness in __put_task_struct at kernel/fork.c:91
...
> Dec 30 08:05:52 localhost kernel: Software Suspend Core.
> Dec 30 08:05:52 localhost kernel: Software Suspend text mode support loaded.
> Dec 30 08:05:52 localhost kernel: Software Suspend LZF Compression Driver registered.
> Dec 30 08:05:52 localhost kernel: Software Suspend Swap Writer registered.

It's actually the swsusp 2 patches that don't handle the pktcdvd
driver correctly. The kthread_run() function was changed, but the
pktcdvd driver wasn't updated accordingly. I think this patch will fix
the problem.

--- linux/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c.old	2004-12-30 20:11:54.400478672 +0100
+++ linux/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c	2004-12-30 20:12:09.617165384 +0100
@@ -2364,7 +2364,7 @@
 	pkt_init_queue(pd);
 
 	atomic_set(&pd->cdrw.pending_bios, 0);
-	pd->cdrw.thread = kthread_run(kcdrwd, pd, "%s", pd->name);
+	pd->cdrw.thread = kthread_run(kcdrwd, pd, PF_SYNCTHREAD, "%s", pd->name);
 	if (IS_ERR(pd->cdrw.thread)) {
 		printk("pktcdvd: can't start kernel thread\n");
 		ret = -ENOMEM;

-- 
Peter Osterlund - petero2@xxxxxxxxx
http://web.telia.com/~u89404340
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