Re: badness in interruptible_sleep_on_timeout FC-3 (source codeand Makefile attached)

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 20:12 +0530, Srinivas G. wrote:
> 
> 
> I have developed a small module in Fedora Core 3 with 2.6.9-1.667
> kernel
> version. This module uses the interruptible_sleep_on_timeout call and

don't use interruptible_sleep_on_timeout() !!!!
really. 

(and if you want to use the sleep_on() family of apis even when you
shouldn't, you HAVE to hold the big kernel lock for them!)

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