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Re: 2.5.40-mm2

To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: 2.5.40-mm2
From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 09:23:04 -0700
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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

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