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From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:47:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802130947.10781.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802130845380.12988@apollo.tec.linutronix.de>

On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:40:21 +0100 Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> > the hrtimer code is preparing an invalid ktime_t.  Note that
> > clockevents_program_event() actually fails when this happens - I am
> > surprised that this is not causing observeable userspace problems.
> >
> > The WARN_ON_ONCE() means that you'll only see this warning once per
> > boot. But the actually error could be happening any number of times
> > without being reported.
> >
> > Looks pretty serious?
>
> Yes. It's the same problem, which got fixed with:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit
>;h=62f0f61e6673e67151a7c8c0f9a09c7ea43fe2b5

OK, so probably glibc performs a unit test during build that asks for a long 
sleep. I guess that makes sense.

Thanks Thomas and Andrew.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-13  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-10 13:40 [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c Frans Pop
2008-02-10 14:20 ` Frans Pop
2008-02-13  7:07 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-13  8:21   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-13  8:47     ` Frans Pop [this message]
2008-02-13  9:32       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-13 21:40         ` Frans Pop
2008-02-14  0:20           ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-14 11:30             ` Frans Pop

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