On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 09:15 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > 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> Please don't say I reviewed this either. I may have commented on it, but I certainly did't add a "Reviewed-by" signature. Please don't add signatures unless people specifically state so. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
