From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:02:41 +0000 Subject: RE: cat /proc/acpi/events bad for your system's health! Message-Id: <16465.64321.446507.50408@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <16455.50905.681007.50048@napali.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <16455.50905.681007.50048@napali.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:15:01 +0800, "Yu, Luming" said: Luming> I confirm this issue here on tiger with 2.6.4-rc3 kernel , Luming> but 2.4 is ok. Not sure this is a regression. >> OK. I assume you (or Len) will take care of it? Luming> The following patch make crash on my tiger gone. However I Luming> didn't dig out the true culprit. Maybe this is due to Luming> excessive optimization. Luming> BTW, my gcc version is 3.2.3 . The patch is fine as a temporary workaround, but surely we need to find out the root cause of this problem. It sounds like there is a race somewhere. I suppose it's possible that it's a compiler problem, but I rather doubt it. Are you doing to dig deeper into it? If not, please let me know. --david