Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261429AbVECJA4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 05:00:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261434AbVECJA4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 05:00:56 -0400 Received: from tornado.reub.net ([60.234.136.108]:15072 "EHLO tornado.reub.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261429AbVECJAu (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 05:00:50 -0400 Message-ID: <42773DC0.4050803@reub.net> Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 21:00:48 +1200 From: Reuben Farrelly User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0+ (Windows/20050501) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm1 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1091 Lines: 31 Hi Andrew, Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc3/2.6.12-rc3-mm1/ > > - There's still a bug in the new timer code. If you think you hit it, > please revert > > timers-fixes-improvements-fix.patch then > timers-fixes-improvements-smp_processor_id-fix.patch then > timers-fixes-improvements.patch > > or, better, fix the bug. FWIW, I can reproduce this timer bug fairly consistently, by simply rebooting my cisco router. That means that my linux box has no default gateway, and hence the networking blows up within about 30s and dies with a stack trace which has references to timers. I'll back out those three patches and see if it continues, but hopefully my little discovery is useful to someone in terms of coming up with a fix.... Box is an Intel 2.8/SMP reuben - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/