Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261435AbVECJtL (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 05:49:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261442AbVECJtL (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 05:49:11 -0400 Received: from tornado.reub.net ([60.234.136.108]:2956 "EHLO tornado.reub.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261435AbVECJtF (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 05:49:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4277490D.7040205@reub.net> Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 21:49:01 +1200 From: Reuben Farrelly User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0+ (Windows/20050501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm1 References: <42773DC0.4050803@reub.net> <20050503020705.29bbffbd.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050503020705.29bbffbd.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1534 Lines: 51 Hi, Andrew Morton wrote: > Reuben Farrelly wrote: > >>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.... >> > > > Rather than backing things out, please add this instead: > > > From: Oleg Nesterov > > The bug was identified by Maneesh Soni. Yup, this patch seems to fix it. I did 3 router reboots, and my linux box held up fine. Previous to this patch it had fatally oopsed 5 out of the 6 times I reloaded the router.. Thanks :) 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/