From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762851AbYBNLa0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:30:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753964AbYBNLaU (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:30:20 -0500 Received: from hpsmtp-eml14.KPNXCHANGE.COM ([213.75.38.114]:25741 "EHLO hpsmtp-eml14.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753919AbYBNLaT (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:30:19 -0500 From: Frans Pop To: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:30:13 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john stultz References: <200802101440.22118.elendil@planet.nl> <200802132240.04357.elendil@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802141230.14625.elendil@planet.nl> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Feb 2008 11:30:15.0586 (UTC) FILETIME=[F840A820:01C86EFC] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 14 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > futex_lock_pi is called with an absolute timeout, which is based on > CLOCK_REALTIME. Nothing wrong with that, but the clockevents WARN_ON > might trap over a false positive, when the expiry value is less than > base->offset. This was intentional before we put the WARN_ON into the > clockevents code. > > The patch below should fix this issue. With these two patches on top of 2.6.24.2 I no longer get any warnings during a glibc compile: - hrtimer: check relative timeouts for overflow - hrtimer: fix abs clock realtime Thanks Thomas. Cheers, FJP