Re: uninterruptible sleep lockups

[Chris Friesen]

Anthony DiSante wrote:

> It's indisputable that there will always be driver bugs and faulty 
> hardware.  Of course these should be fixed, but if it's possible for the 
> kernel to gracefully deal with the bugs until they get fixed, then why 
> shouldn't it do so?

Think of the overhead required to track every single resource ever 
aquired by the process/thread/entity in question.  Then if/when it 
hangs, you'd have to properly clean up every last one of them.

Much safer/simpler to leave it hung, and force an eventual reboot.

If you have been given code that causes D states, bitch to the supplier 
until they fix it.  Kernel bugs are not acceptable.

Chris
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