From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@redhat.com,
tglx@linutronix.de, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: fix deadlock
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:11:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080823171139.GA13144@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18608.16826.607428.203994@harpo.it.uu.se>
* Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> wrote:
> Thanks for the patch, I'll give it a try ASAP.
>
> The sporadic nature of the bug means that it will probably take a
> couple of days of testing and dozens of reboots w/o problems before
> I'm confident to say that the problem's been fixed.
btw., i've seen that lockup too on a testbox - but havent been able to
track it down yet. You went further and presented the bug on a plate by
tracking it down to the loop in get_rtc_time() - so now we can both test
the fix and see whether the lockups are gone.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-23 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-23 9:48 [BUG] get_rtc_time() triggers NMI watchdog in hpet_rtc_interrupt() Mikael Pettersson
2008-08-23 16:01 ` [PATCH] rtc: fix deadlock Ingo Molnar
2008-08-23 16:58 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-08-23 17:11 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-08-23 18:45 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-08-23 19:46 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-08-29 11:48 ` [PATCH] rtc: fix deadlock: fixes regression since 2.6.24 Frank van Maarseveen
2008-09-06 18:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-01 23:51 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2008-08-24 9:14 ` [BUG] get_rtc_time() triggers NMI watchdog in hpet_rtc_interrupt() Vegard Nossum
2008-08-24 10:32 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-08-24 11:48 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-26 10:25 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-08-26 10:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-27 8:54 ` Alan Jenkins
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