Re: BUG: spinlock lockup/wrong CPU/recursion -- when reading numa_mapson 2.6.17-rc1

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Yes, that's a bug and that cond_resched() needs to go.



Remove cond_resched in gather_stats()

gather_stats() is called with a spinlock held from check_pte_range. We
cannot reschedule with a lock held.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm3/mm/mempolicy.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm3.orig/mm/mempolicy.c	2006-04-18 10:58:33.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm3/mm/mempolicy.c	2006-04-18 10:59:56.000000000 -0700
@@ -1761,7 +1761,6 @@ static void gather_stats(struct page *pa
 		md->mapcount_max = count;
 
 	md->node[page_to_nid(page)]++;
-	cond_resched();
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
-
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