Subject: Re: PANIC in check_process_timers() running 2.6.11-rc2-mm1
From: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@dsv.su.se>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:56:13 +0100
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> Thanks for tracking that down.  It was intended that such things would not
> be possible because getting into that code in the first place should be
> ruled out while exiting.  That removes the requirement for any special case
> check in the common path.  But, it was done too late since it hadn't
> occurred to me that ->live going zero itself created a problem.
> 
> Please try this patch instead of the one you posted.  This patch goes on
> top of all the patches I posted, and so should apply to -mm1 fine.  But
> because the context nearby changes a lot in the various patches, this one
> won't apply after just the cputimers patch without the succeeding three.

Yep, appears to be working fine here and cleaner :-)

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