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.
Well, I gave it a shot. I haven't seen any more of the __run_timers
oopses yet, but I haven't been able to stay up for very long before it
freezes, so time will tell. But, for now, I'm pretty sure that it is
quite a bit better.
-- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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