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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Structure clobbering causes timer oopses
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 19:09:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DA8D5E6.8090201@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DA8C75C.C38F840B@digeo.com

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Dave Hansen wrote:
>>...
>>timer magic check failed timer:__run_timers():351
>>begin: 0xc035fbc8 end:0xc035fbe8
> 
> Can you look these up in System.map?

Inside tvec_bases, just like eip, because of timer_t->function.
c035fa80 d tvec_bases
c037fe80 d pidmap_lock
c037fea0 D page_states

>>BTW, I found lots of users who aren't using init_timer().  Should I
>>publicly humiliate them?
> 
> If they're initially using add_timer(), that works out
> OK.  It they start out using mod_timer() (or del_timer) then bug.

The init_timer() comment says otherwise, but I imagine that not using 
it shouldn't _cause_ any bugs.

* init_timer() must be done to a timer prior calling *any* of the
* other timer functions.

> I assume you tried all the memory debugging options?

No luck there.  I can't even get the oops to trigger with all the 
debugging on.

-- 
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-13  2:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-13  0:59 Structure clobbering causes timer oopses Dave Hansen
2002-10-13  1:07 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-13  2:09   ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2002-10-13 19:50     ` Dipankar Sarma

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