From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.40-mm2
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 09:23:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DA30668.1010807@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0210081303090.29540-100000@localhost.localdomain
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
>>cc'ing Ingo, because I think this might be related to the timer bh
>>removal.
>
> could you try the attached patch against 2.5.41, does it help? It fixes
> the bugs found so far plus makes del_timer_sync() a bit more robust by
> re-checking timer pending-ness before exiting. There is one type of code
> that might have relied on this kind of behavior of the old timer code.
Well, I gave it a shot. I haven't seen any more of the __run_timers
oopses yet, but I haven't been able to stay up for very long before it
freezes, so time will tell. But, for now, I'm pretty sure that it is
quite a bit better.
--
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com
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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.40-mm2
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 09:23:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DA30668.1010807@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0210081303090.29540-100000@localhost.localdomain
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
>>cc'ing Ingo, because I think this might be related to the timer bh
>>removal.
>
> could you try the attached patch against 2.5.41, does it help? It fixes
> the bugs found so far plus makes del_timer_sync() a bit more robust by
> re-checking timer pending-ness before exiting. There is one type of code
> that might have relied on this kind of behavior of the old timer code.
Well, I gave it a shot. I haven't seen any more of the __run_timers
oopses yet, but I haven't been able to stay up for very long before it
freezes, so time will tell. But, for now, I'm pretty sure that it is
quite a bit better.
--
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-08 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-06 18:47 2.5.40-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-10-06 18:47 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-10-06 20:47 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Dave Hansen
2002-10-06 20:47 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Dave Hansen
2002-10-06 21:55 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-10-06 21:55 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-10-06 22:07 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-10-06 22:07 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-10-06 22:11 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-10-06 22:11 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-10-07 5:46 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Dave Hansen
2002-10-07 5:46 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Dave Hansen
2002-10-06 22:23 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Robert Love
2002-10-06 22:23 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Robert Love
2002-10-06 22:33 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-10-06 22:33 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-10-06 22:38 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Robert Love
2002-10-06 22:38 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Robert Love
2002-10-08 11:05 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2002-10-08 11:05 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2002-10-08 16:23 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2002-10-08 16:23 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Dave Hansen
2002-10-08 16:43 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Dave Hansen
2002-10-08 16:43 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Dave Hansen
2002-10-08 16:56 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-10-08 16:56 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-10-09 8:12 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2002-10-09 8:12 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2002-10-07 17:45 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Badari Pulavarty
2002-10-07 17:45 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Badari Pulavarty
2002-10-07 17:55 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Jens Axboe
2002-10-07 17:55 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Jens Axboe
2002-10-07 18:23 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-10-07 18:23 ` 2.5.40-mm2 Andrew Morton
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