From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3DA30668.1010807@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 09:23:04 -0700 From: Dave Hansen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 2.5.40-mm2 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , lkml , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: 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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/