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Subject: Re: BUG: wait_task_zombie NULL dereference
From: "Bill Huey (hui)" <bill.huey@gmail.com>
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I should add that I encountered this on 3.6.0 with some mild
modifications to the scheduler path that enqueue/dequeue a task before
any of the schedule exit logic gets hit. The SCHED_FF/FIFO rebalancer
does much the same so I can't imagine that being the source of the
problem.

I could be wrong however.

bill

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Bill Huey (hui) <bill.huey@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm hitting this under a heavy scheduler test load with SCHED_RR tasks
> exiting normally after completion and the parent exiting with some of
> the pthreads still running: