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From: Doru Petrescu <pdoru@kappa.ro>
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> Problem is, it seems that your machine is using
> IPV4, TCP, IDE, netfilter and nothing else.  Those
> parts of the kernel don't have the above bug (well,
> they didn't mid last year).
> 
> One really, really useful piece of information would
> be the value of the `function' member of the corrupted
> timer.  Your debug code prints this out.  Do you still
> have the logs?
> 
> Was it ever non-zero?
> 
> If so, what function was it pointing at?


The matchine crashed several times, BEFORE I modified timer.c
it did NOT CRASHED even once after that :( 
I am waiting for it to chrash.
when it will crash, I will let you guys know.

But, as I stated before, I fear that because of the changes, the race
condition does not happen any more ...


Best regards,
------
Doru Petrescu
KappaNet - Senior Software Engineer
E-mail: pdoru@kappa.ro		 LINUX - the choice of the GNU generation


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