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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
	gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.29.1 debugobjects warning
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:49:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090424064937.GD21739@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090423164638.3b5769c6.akpm@linux-foundation.org>


* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:00:02 -0400
> Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:
> 
> > ODEBUG: init active object type: timer_list

> It seems to be complaining that cpufreq_governor_dbs() is running 
> init_timer() against a timer which has already been initialised 
> once.

Not just already initialized - but also active. There's these states 
for an object:

        ODEBUG_STATE_NONE,
        ODEBUG_STATE_INIT,
        ODEBUG_STATE_INACTIVE,
        ODEBUG_STATE_ACTIVE,
        ODEBUG_STATE_DESTROYED,

So the 'init active object type' warning above suggests that an 
init_timer() has been done on an already running timer. If true then 
that is a bad bug - can corrupt timer state, etc.

Thomas, do you agree?

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-24  6:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-23 14:00 [BUG] 2.6.29.1 debugobjects warning Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-23 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-24  4:34   ` [PATCH -stable] cpufreq fix timer teardown in conservative governor (2.6.28.x, 2.6.29.1) Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-28 12:57     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-24  4:35   ` [PATCH] cpufreq fix timer teardown in conservative governor (2.6.30-rc2) Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-24  6:18     ` Len Brown
2009-04-24 16:12       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-26 14:47         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-04-26 16:31           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-24  4:38   ` [PATCH] cpufreq fix timer teardown in ondemand governor (2.6.28.x, 2.6.29.1, 2.6.30-rc2) Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-28 13:00     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-24  6:49   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-04-24 15:07     ` [BUG] 2.6.29.1 debugobjects warning Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-27 11:30     ` Thomas Gleixner

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