Re: Bug: fio traps into kernel without exiting because futex has adeadloop

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Jun 15 2009 - 03:58:32 EST


On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> > + ret = get_user_pages_fast(addr, 1, 1, &page);
>
> I checked function ïget_user_pages_fast. It might return negative, 0, or
> positive value. 0 means it doesn't pin any page. So why does below statement
> use (!ret) to put_page?

Hmm, darn. You are right. It needs to be (ret > 0)

Thanks,

tglx