Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 09:28:34 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: ganzinger@mvista.com
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] BUG_ON() in ksoftirqd is a bit too agressive...
Message-ID: <20050523072834.GB3539@elte.hu>
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* George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> wrote:

> Ksoftirqd is created by init, long after the timer system is up and 
> running.  We have hit the BUG_ON(tasklet_... in this code, i.e. 
> tasklets pending at ksoftirqd create time.  Since, with the RT option 
> to push all softirq code to a thread, any softirqs are defered to this 
> time, it is easy to hit this bug.  Clearly only a problem for cpu 0.  
> Here is a patch:

thanks, i've applied this to my -RT tree (will show up in .47-05 and 
later trees).

	Ingo
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