Re: [patch] hrtimers debug patch

[Michal Piotrowski]

On 26/03/07, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Stardust is down, console log and config attached.
>
> thanks! I have stared at hrtimer.c a few more hours and the good news is
> that i found a narrow SMP race. The bad news is that i dont think it
> could explain your bug symptoms: the worst-case effect of the race
> should be an incorrect timeout on the current CPU - not a KTIME_MAX
> thing like your logs show.
>
> But maybe i didnt think through the effects of the bug well enough, and
> your box has a HT CPU, with HT CPUs being pretty good at triggering
> narrow SMP races - so maybe we are lucky? Fix attached below. Patch is
> build and boot-tested.

Thanks. Verification may take some time.

>         Ingo

Regards,
Michal

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Michal K. K. Piotrowski
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