kthread_run might sleep during an allocation, and so it's considered unsafe to call with a state that's not RUNNABLE. Move the state setting to after kthread_run call. Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/debug.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/debug.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/debug.c index 75a2a42..42b15a7 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/debug.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/debug.c @@ -362,12 +362,12 @@ void libcfs_debug_dumplog(void) * get to schedule() */ init_waitqueue_entry(&wait, current); - set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); add_wait_queue(&debug_ctlwq, &wait); dumper = kthread_run(libcfs_debug_dumplog_thread, (void *)(long)current_pid(), "libcfs_debug_dumper"); + set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); if (IS_ERR(dumper)) pr_err("LustreError: cannot start log dump thread: %ld\n", PTR_ERR(dumper)); -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel