Re: Expect defunct, kill -9 panics kernel?

"Carlos O'Donell" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.hppa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/10/07, James Bottomley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 14:37 -0500, John David Anglin wrote:
> > > 0x10 looks to be curr->func implying curr is NULL and thus the queue
> > > task_list is corrupt.
> >
> > Do you think it help to add a check in __wake_up for a NULL pointer?
>
> I suppose so ... I'd really like someone to validate my guess though,
> although an additional BUG_ON() can't hurt.

How do I validate your guess? Look for a null or bogus curr->func when
scheduling?

c.
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