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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Subject: Re: [crash] kernel BUG at drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c:1060!
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:50:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071213175038.GD28148@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071213101711.GN8977@elte.hu>

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:17:11AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
 > 
 > * Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
 > 
 > >  > It _looks_ like we're leaking a refcount on that lock, but I don't 
 > >  > see where.  It's a shame you can't reproduce this easily, as 
 > >  > cpufreq.debug=7 would give us more clues. (And 
 > >  > CONFIG_CPUFREQ_DEBUG=y)
 > > 
 > > So we're missing some unlocks in some error paths. It's feasible you 
 > > hit one of those. This patch should be the fix for that.
 > 
 > since it's not really reproducible (i failed to get it since then), how 
 > about you push your fix upstream (it's an obviously correct fix), we 
 > consider this regression fixed and i'll re-notify you if there's still 
 > any problem left. It's not like there's any escape from make randconfig 
 > bootup test coverage in the long run ;-)

Yeah, will push it to Linus today.

	Dave

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

      reply	other threads:[~2007-12-13 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-12  9:11 [crash] kernel BUG at drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c:1060! Ingo Molnar
2007-12-12  9:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-12 10:21 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-12-12 10:35   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-12 16:40 ` Dave Jones
2007-12-12 18:18   ` Dave Jones
2007-12-13 10:17     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-13 17:50       ` Dave Jones [this message]

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