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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Matt Bernstein <matt@theBachChoir.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oops with 2.4.17 + mini-ll patch
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:54:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C3DFF76.2DA2F5BD@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0201101544330.31242-100000@nick.dcs.qmul.ac.uk>

Matt Bernstein wrote:
> 
> Not sure if this is related to your patch (which looked harmless enough to
> me :), but here it is anyway.

mmm..  Probably coincidental.

> Dual PIII 1GHz, modular everything inc. ATA/IDE (VIA); SCSI (gdth.o);
> NFSv3 (udp, client only); autofs4; ext2 only for local fs. Debian woody.

It could be a timer deletion race.  There are still zillions of these,
but nobody ever encounters them.

What was the system doing at the time?  Do you think a module could
have been in the process of unloading?  autofs unmount, something
like that?

-

  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-10 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-10 15:52 oops with 2.4.17 + mini-ll patch Matt Bernstein
2002-01-10 20:54 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-01-10 23:53   ` Matt Bernstein

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