Re: [TIP,BISECTED] Negative nice values have become big positivenumbers

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Tue Mar 10 2009 - 06:03:41 EST


On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:12:22AM +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 09:15:04PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 11:18:50PM +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> > > Formally negative nice values have started become very big in positive
> > > integers in -tip kernels:
> > >
> > > 2 root 15 2147483647 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
> >
> > The weird thing here is that number: 2147483647
> > It is 0xefffffff
> > Which means -1 without the highest bit (the sign).
> > I really don't know how it could have happened.
> >
> > Anyway, I caught something in the signedness bits from my patch that unifies
> > the format decoding.
> > I've never seen your bug on my machine. But I note you have a 32 bits CPU.
> > Mine is 64 bits with a 64 bits kernel. Perhaps some weird signedness related things
> > happened because of the signedness bug that the following patch fixes.
> >
> > Can you please give it a try?
>
> This seems to have fixed the problem (unless I'm mistaken):
> 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/


Thanks a lot Sitsofe!

Reported-and-tested-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@xxxxxxxxx>

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