Re: 2.5.40-mm2

Andrew Morton
2002-10-08T16:51:13Z

Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Dave Hansen wrote:
> >
> >>cc'ing Ingo, because I think this might be related to the timer bh
> >>removal.
> >
> > could you try the attached patch against 2.5.41, does it help? It fixes
> > the bugs found so far plus makes del_timer_sync() a bit more robust by
> > re-checking timer pending-ness before exiting. There is one type of code
> > that might have relied on this kind of behavior of the old timer code.
>
> Hehe. That'll teach me to be optimistic. This is unprocessed, but
> the EIP in tvec_bases should tell the whole story. Something _nasty_
> is going on.
>
> addr2line on the run_timer_tasklet call: kernel/timer.c:359
> This is with the patch that Ingo sent me about 6 hours ago. Andrew,
> should I still test the one that you sent me this morning?

No; I think Ingo covered everything there, and more.

> Dave Hansen
> haveblue@us.ibm.com