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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: oops in choose_configuration()
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:51:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1141710669.7901.9.camel@homer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141631240.26111.11.camel@homer>

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 08:47 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 21:00 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Is there something else I've missed?
> 
> Maybe.  Does this add anything to the picture?  During boot,
> recalc_task_prio() is called with now < p->timestamp.  This causes quite
> a stir.  If you WARN_ON(now < p->timestamp) or printk, you'll have a
> dead box due to hundreds of gripes as things churn.  Adding...
> 
> if (unlikely(now < p->timestamp))
> 	__sleep_time = 0ULL;
> 
> ...turns it into exactly one gripe.

Nope.  Further research shows that this is just a speed-step problem.
Still, the scheduler needs to protect itself, because even with all of
the speed-step stuff enabled, these continue to occurr even after
boot-up if you switch to a low power setting, which screws up the
scheduler.

	-Mike


  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-07  5:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20060304121723.19fe9b4b.akpm@osdl.org>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603041235110.22647@g5.osdl.org>
     [not found]   ` <20060304213447.GA4445@kroah.com>
     [not found]     ` <20060304135138.613021bd.akpm@osdl.org>
     [not found]       ` <20060304221810.GA20011@kroah.com>
2006-03-05 23:48         ` Fw: Re: oops in choose_configuration() Andrew Morton
2006-03-06  3:27           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06  8:48             ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08  1:31               ` Greg KH
2006-03-08  1:49                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08 15:30                 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2006-03-08 18:33                   ` David Brownell
2006-03-08 20:09                     ` Alan Stern
2006-03-08 20:14                       ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08 20:51                         ` Alan Stern
2006-03-08 20:54                           ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08 21:55                             ` Alan Stern
2006-03-08 20:14                     ` [PATCH] usbcore: Don't assume a USB configuration includes any interfaces Alan Stern
2006-03-06  5:00           ` Fw: Re: oops in choose_configuration() Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06  7:47             ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-07  5:51               ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2006-03-07  5:56                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-06  9:14             ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-06 10:31             ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-06 11:04           ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 11:15             ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-06 15:59               ` Dave Jones
2006-03-07 21:54 Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-08  0:54 ` Greg KH
2006-03-08  0:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-08  1:13   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-03-08  1:27     ` Greg KH
2006-03-08  3:22       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-03-08  5:23         ` Greg KH
2006-03-08  6:06           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-03-08  6:15             ` Greg KH
2006-03-08  4:28   ` Joe Korty
2006-03-08  4:44     ` Dmitry Torokhov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-08  3:29 Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-08  3:48 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-03-08  4:01 ` Linus Torvalds

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