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From: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@dsv.su.se>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PANIC in check_process_timers() running 2.6.11-rc2-mm1
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:56:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1106693773.705.56.camel@boxen> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200501252209.j0PM95MX000477@magilla.sf.frob.com>

> Thanks for tracking that down.  It was intended that such things would not
> be possible because getting into that code in the first place should be
> ruled out while exiting.  That removes the requirement for any special case
> check in the common path.  But, it was done too late since it hadn't
> occurred to me that ->live going zero itself created a problem.
> 
> Please try this patch instead of the one you posted.  This patch goes on
> top of all the patches I posted, and so should apply to -mm1 fine.  But
> because the context nearby changes a lot in the various patches, this one
> won't apply after just the cputimers patch without the succeeding three.

Yep, appears to be working fine here and cleaner :-)


      reply	other threads:[~2005-01-25 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-25 16:10 PANIC in check_process_timers() running 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 Alexander Nyberg
2005-01-25 17:06 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-01-25 22:09   ` Roland McGrath
2005-01-25 22:56     ` Alexander Nyberg [this message]

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