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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
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Subject: Re: unable to handle paging request in worker_thread on apm resume
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"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
>
> > Have you added any code which does schedule_work()?
> 
>  Hm, I don't think so.  But of course I have some nfsv4 patches, and the
>  nfsv4 nfsd code does use schedule_delayed_work().  It's possible the
>  cleanup is wrong, and that bringing nfsd up and down could get nfsv4
>  into some bad state.  I'll take a look.  Would that explain this?

I guess so.  Anything which frees the memory which contains a work_struct
without having correctly descheduled that work_struct would cause this
crash.