From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261174AbVESR0X (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 13:26:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261172AbVESR0X (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 13:26:23 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:37873 "EHLO av.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261174AbVESR0W (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 13:26:22 -0400 Subject: Re: Why yield in coredump_wait? [was: Re: Resent: BUG in RT 45-01 when RT program dumps core] From: Daniel Walker Reply-To: dwalker@mvista.com To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Linus Torvalds , kus Kusche Klaus , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1116509820.15866.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1116503763.15866.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1116509820.15866.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: MontaVista Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:25:52 -0700 Message-Id: <1116523552.14229.64.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:37 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > The reason I'm asking this, is that RT tasks should not call yield, > since it is pretty much meaningless, since an RT task won't yield to any > task of lesser priority, and in Ingo's current kernel the yield will > send a bug message if it was called by an RT task. I've seen a RT yield warning on this yield while running the FUSYN tests .. I can't imagine why it's there either. Daniel