The patch titled softlockup: fix a potential race condition in watchdog() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was softlockup-fix-a-potential-race-condition-in-watchdog.patch This patch was dropped because it is obsolete The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: softlockup: fix a potential race condition in watchdog() From: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@xxxxxxxxx> kthread_stop() can be called when a 'watchdog' thread is executing after kthread_should_stop() but before set_task_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/softlockup.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN kernel/softlockup.c~softlockup-fix-a-potential-race-condition-in-watchdog kernel/softlockup.c --- a/kernel/softlockup.c~softlockup-fix-a-potential-race-condition-in-watchdog +++ a/kernel/softlockup.c @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ void softlockup_tick(void) touch_softlockup_watchdog(); return; } + printk(KERN_ERR "watchdog(cpu: %d) -- exit\n", this_cpu); now = get_timestamp(this_cpu); @@ -289,6 +290,7 @@ cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, case CPU_DEAD_FROZEN: p = per_cpu(watchdog_task, hotcpu); per_cpu(watchdog_task, hotcpu) = NULL; + printk(KERN_ERR "kthread_stop(watchdog on cpu: %d)\n", hotcpu); kthread_stop(p); break; #endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dmitry.adamushko@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch softlockup-fix-a-potential-race-condition-in-watchdog.patch softlockup-fix-a-potential-race-condition-in-watchdog-2.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html