Re: Badness in sleep_on_timeout on kernel 2.6.9-1.667 ( fedora core 3)

[Gaurav Dhiman <gauravd.chd@gmail.com>]

On 2/8/06, anil dahiya <ak_ait@yahoo.com> wrote:
> then which function i should use...beacause same
> problem is with interruptible_sleep_on

prefer to use wait_event_timeout() ; see its code in kernel.
Its written fro handling race conditions, which might occur in
interruptible_sleep_on() or other such functions.

-Gaurav

> thanks & Regards,
> anil
>
> --- David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 12:00 -0800, anil dahiya
> > wrote:
> > >  Badness in sleep_on_timeout at
> > kernel/sched.c:3022
> > >  [<02302bc3>] sleep_on_timeout+0x5d/0x23a
> > >  [<0211b919>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xc
> > >
> > > can any suggest how i can avoid this oops.
> >
> > Stop using sleep_on_timeout(). It's almost certainly
> > buggy.
> >
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