On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:47 PM, SaNtosh kuLkarni <santosh.yesop...@gmail.com> wrote: > A certain kernel process has acquired a semaphore lock and meanwhile during > this period > the process gets killed abruptly (and it has not released the sem > lock..//.sem down)..... > and the other processes cannot acquire the lock, what can be done in this > case.
The only check I see is debug_check_no_locks_held() in kernel/exit.c file, do_exit(). But it seems to be relevant only for 'CONFIG_LOCKDEP'... Does anyone know the correct answer? Thanks, --- KostaZ _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
