Re: unable to handle paging request in worker_thread on apm resume

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Mar 23 2005 - 15:23:12 EST


"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Have you added any code which does schedule_work()?
>
> Hm, I don't think so. But of course I have some nfsv4 patches, and the
> nfsv4 nfsd code does use schedule_delayed_work(). It's possible the
> cleanup is wrong, and that bringing nfsd up and down could get nfsv4
> into some bad state. I'll take a look. Would that explain this?

I guess so. Anything which frees the memory which contains a work_struct
without having correctly descheduled that work_struct would cause this
crash.

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