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Peter Zijlstra committed b433c3d4549
init, sched: Fix race between init and kthreadd Ilya reported that on a very slow machine he could reliably reproduce a race between forking init and kthreadd. We first fork init so that it obtains pid-1, however since the scheduler is already fully running at this point it can preempt and run the init thread before we spawn and set kthreadd_task. The init thread can then attempt spawning kthreads without kthreadd being present which results in an OOPS. Reported-by: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <1277736661.3561.110.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>