Re: 2.6.32.21 - uptime related crashes?

[john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 12:02 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 10:30 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 17:35 -0700, john stultz wrote:
> > > 
> > > Peter/Ingo: Can you take a look at the above and let me know if you find
> > > it too disagreeable? 
> > 
> > I'm not quite sure of the calling conditions of set_cyc2ns_scale(), but
> > there's two sites in there that do:
> > 
> > +       local_irq_save(flags);
> > 
> > +               data = kmalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
> > 
> > +       local_irq_restore(flags);
> > 
> > Clearly that's not going to work well at all.
> 
> Furthermore there is a distinct lack of error handling there, it assumes
> the allocation always succeeds.

Yes, both of those issues are embarrassing. Thanks for pointing them
out. I'll take another swing at it.

thanks
-john