[PATCH] tasklist left locked
On 4-way SMP, about one reboot in twenty hangs while killing processes: exit needs exclusive tasklist_lock, but something still holds read_lock. do_signal_stop race case misses unlock, and fixing it fixes the symptom. Signed-off-by:Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by:
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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