On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 05:53:22AM +0000, Wang, Biao wrote: > Consider the following case: > Task A trigger lmk with a lock held, while task B try to > get this lock, but unfortunately B is the very culprit task lmk select to > kill. Then B will never be killed, and A will forever select B to kill. > Such dead lock will trigger softlock up issue. > > This patch try to pick the next task to break this loop. > > Signed-off-by: Wang Biao <biao.wang@xxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Zhang Di <di.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> I don't really feel comfortable saying I reviewed this code. I just commented on a few process issues. I don't know the subsystem well enough to give it a seal of approval. > Reviewed-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
